DOES WRITING FEEL IMPOSSIBLE TO YOU RIGHT NOW?????
Do you remember that quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll?
“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'
'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”
Try remembering a time in your life when something impossible and completely unexpected happened, when you were stuck and somehow the future arrived and you got unstuck. This has actually happened to me so many times, I had to start a list!
One of my most obvious examples of the impossible happening to me was when I was in my twenties and completely depressed and feeling useless on the planet. I had no high school diploma. I had been thrown out of college twice. And all I loved to do was read and write!
Wait a minute, how did I get to college when I wasn’t even a high school grad? That's 2 other impossible stories right there! But I digress.
I got a phone call from a person who ran an MFA program inviting me to get an MFA and saying, “just ignore the fact that you have no other degrees, come!” I was so surprised, I insisted they send me a fax with the official offer. When the Dean of Admissions called to find out what I’d been promised (by a person who had been fired recently) I was able to produce the offer in writing, and the dean honored it. Including the part that said tuition-free! So impossible things do happen.
Start your own list! Let me remind you that when you were small and saw a big sibling tie their shoes, that seemed impossible to you! Stairs used to be impossible too. Think of moments when you felt stuck and the shifts that happened that you could not have anticipated.
We cannot know what our future holds. Practicing believing in the impossible will help you start to change your mind. You all know that quote from Buddha that goes, “What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”
I know we all want to open the door to a better, more creative future, so start a list of all the impossible things that have already happened to you! And let me know about the new possibilities in your life!