Healing this disease is supposed to be impossible. In my
experience, the word “impossible” is relative.
Some things simply cannot be done: scaling Everest with flippers on your feet, for instance. Scaling Everest in a hot little bikini might be do-able, for all I know, although it hasn't been done yet. I've met one or two people who seemed well suited (so to speak) for the job.
Many things that are widely considered impossible are simply heinously difficult, requiring extra time, diligence, and determination. They may be practically impossible, because most people are not willing to try that hard and can't imagine that anyone else would be. I've met a few of those, too.
When facing the practically impossible, it helps to have a certain blithely F-U attitude, to be willing to flip a bird or two at the forces – or people – that seem to hold me from it. Not to hold resentment, but to detach from their limitations and clarify that they have no hold over me.
It helps to realize that those who tell me it's impossible are really speaking for themselves, but that doesn't mean they get to speak for me.
In short, it helps to have that inner steel spring that winds me up beyond any comfort zone and propels my willful butt over the heads of everyone who has failed before they began, and lets me look at them – not with contempt, because that has no place at this height – but with a cheerful bouyancy that holds the possibility that maybe there's room for them up here, too.
This attitude is springy without being snappish, free-spirited without wasting time in rebellion, wild and fresh with only its own inner guidance for discipline.
It's impish, in other words.
And this gives us a word we can use to describe things like scaling Everest in a skimpy swimsuit, or inviting cannibals to a linen-dressed tea, or curing CRPS:
Imp-possible.
I rather like that.
Curing CRPS is imp-possible. Excellent. Bring on the bikinis.
Some things simply cannot be done: scaling Everest with flippers on your feet, for instance. Scaling Everest in a hot little bikini might be do-able, for all I know, although it hasn't been done yet. I've met one or two people who seemed well suited (so to speak) for the job.
Many things that are widely considered impossible are simply heinously difficult, requiring extra time, diligence, and determination. They may be practically impossible, because most people are not willing to try that hard and can't imagine that anyone else would be. I've met a few of those, too.
When facing the practically impossible, it helps to have a certain blithely F-U attitude, to be willing to flip a bird or two at the forces – or people – that seem to hold me from it. Not to hold resentment, but to detach from their limitations and clarify that they have no hold over me.
It helps to realize that those who tell me it's impossible are really speaking for themselves, but that doesn't mean they get to speak for me.
In short, it helps to have that inner steel spring that winds me up beyond any comfort zone and propels my willful butt over the heads of everyone who has failed before they began, and lets me look at them – not with contempt, because that has no place at this height – but with a cheerful bouyancy that holds the possibility that maybe there's room for them up here, too.
This attitude is springy without being snappish, free-spirited without wasting time in rebellion, wild and fresh with only its own inner guidance for discipline.
It's impish, in other words.
And this gives us a word we can use to describe things like scaling Everest in a skimpy swimsuit, or inviting cannibals to a linen-dressed tea, or curing CRPS:
Imp-possible.
I rather like that.
Curing CRPS is imp-possible. Excellent. Bring on the bikinis.
Posts
As a friend of the fae, and fan of your particular brand of imp-possibility, I'm in!
ReplyDeleteExcellent, you'll brighten things up :)
DeleteOh yes, I'm definitely a fan of the imp-possibility concept! It has transpired over the years that I am stubborn and chronically enthusiastic, but I never thought of it as impish before, I like it :-) You can count me in, too, xxx
ReplyDeleteDon't be fooled. Elle is the quintessence of impish. Check out her blog.
Delete