Just because I haven’t seen it done before, does that mean it can’t be done?

Just because no one else ever has done it before, does that mean it still can’t be done?

Everything ever done, at some point, was done for the first time.

How did the Wright Brothers have the vision to know human flight was possible? How did the engineers at NASA believe a moon landing could be a success? Henry Ford and the combustible engine? Thomas Edison and the electric light bulb? And countless other inventions, discoveries, and feats of human strength and power previously thought impossible, previously never ever seen or done?

Just because something hasn’t happened yet, doesn’t mean it can’t or won’t. At the same time, of course, it doesn’t mean it can or will, either. lol. How do we know what’s really possible — just hasn’t been seen or done yet — from what actually isn’t possible? If we’re brave enough, bold enough, daring enough, committed enough — how do we know that our pursuit of making the impossible possible will be fruitful, will be ultimately successful one day?

As Tony Robbins says, you can run east looking for a sunset, and no matter how committed you are, you’re not going to find it. Sunsets are in the west. What if a person spent all their time, energy, and resources looking for that sunset on the east horizon? They’d “waste” their life, searching in futility, for a result that will never, ever happen on planet Earth.

Now, I will say, that most things we assume (or have been taught) to be impossible, actually probably are possible.

Don’t believe everything the experts and professionals tell you.

Remember, we used to all know the Earth was flat. Then we all knew we were the center of the universe. We also knew all sorts of falsehoods about science, medicine, human potential, God, and just about every other topic imaginable.

Later, someone somewhere discovered otherwise. And now we know better.

Don’t trust what you know. We’ve been wrong before.

Even today, modern scientists are discovering some of our most basic and fundamental assumptions about genetics, biology, and astronomy to be incomplete or in error. I think the best answer is to say we think something, or something seems to be true… But we must keep an open mind to new discoveries, new breakthroughs, new possibilities, new barriers broken.

It seems God has built a universe that lets us have virtually no limits — once we understand it closely enough. :)

What’s the future hold?

Time travel? Human cloning? Faster than light travel? Immortality? Interplanetary trade agreements between alien races? lol. This stuff all sounds pretty sci-fi, and maybe it is, but that doesn’t mean it won’t, or can’t, one day be possible.

Just because it hasn’t been seen before, just because it hasn’t been done before, doesn’t mean it can’t ever or won’t ever.

But what really is possible — and what, unfortunately, will always remain just a fantasy?

I don’t know.

And while this is fun to think about, it really has no relevance to us. Wondering “what if” is a nice distraction from the present moment, but ultimately, we’ve still got to go back to our day jobs, our familiar surroundings and way of life. Most of us will never push the limits of science and human potential. Most of us will never dare, never be bold or courageous enough to find out what really is possible in this life.

Most of us will live a most ordinary and common life.

Watching, and waiting, for those extremely rare few individuals to break the limits for us — to take us all to a new higher level of dreams and possibility, to touch and transform every one of our lives with things like computers, airplanes, cell phones, cable TV, and automobiles.

Those are the ones who shape the future. Because they are the ones who create it.

Every one of us has that potential.

But few dare to find just how far our potential can go.

The question is, do I dare? Will I push myself to my limits? Will I dare to find out what really is possible in my life?

Only I can answer that. That question can only be answered by each of us individually.  No one can do it for us.

What’s possible?

I don’t know.

But maybe one day, I’ll be brave enough to find out.

Maybe today.

Namaste, my love,
David Michael