The Case for What’s Possible: Disconnecting What’s Hardwired
For the sake of exemplification, this quote effectively parses the concept of what’s possible, “If someone says to us, “X is possible,” we would normally understand them to mean that X does not now exist and that its existence, even someday, is not certain.” However, for many people, there is another view of what’s possible. “This new view of possibility has an immediate and powerful impact on who we are, how we live our lives, and how we see things — now, in the present. It has the power to move, touch, and inspire us; to shape our actions; and to shift the way we are being right now.”
In the not-too-distant past, I observed this second, spontaneous experience of possibility while visiting a family I knew well in Morocco. In a country blessed with unequal measures of poverty and wealth, tradition and modernity, I’ve met Moroccans who may limit their dreams, goals, and what is possible in their lives via a complicated application of logic, experience, and argument.
For example, “I can do this because…” or “I can’t do this because…” Moroccans are not alone in these semantic gyrations. These are familiar phrases on which many of us hang innumerable life decisions and choices. What follows is a truncated example of how possibility, however impossible, becomes possible out of an intense desire for something more…
