If I die today, I'd like to be remembered as a hopeless optimist. I don't believe in giving up. Just because someone else says that it's too hard, can't be done, you're not good enough, never been done before, impossible! Well, people say you must be practical. That you must remain rational in a perfectly irrational world, is a lame excuse for not playing with the impossible. That to maintain your own sanity you must recognize the insane and then stay away from it is leading a drab existence.
But what people forget often enough that it's people who play with the insane that take the human race forward. Normal, 'sane' people like you or me watch quietly from the sidelines as the insane define the pace of the world. They create, innovate, dream, invent and do everything that we lesser mortals brand impossible. For them challenging the status quo is a way of life.
I love the Apple ad that's a tribute to the great people who think differently. It really reminds us that there are some people on our planet who lead an existence that's not bound by rules. People say that the best thing about children is that they don't know what can and can't be done. Their innocence is their greatest asset. I guess for kids the line between dreams and reality is a wee bit more blurred. As we grow older there's just too many things that we know can't be done. That, I believe, is our undoing.
This week, I experienced how people take the easy way out by trashing a new idea with the impossible tag. The guy just wouldn't have any of it. Perhaps our ideas clashed with his traditional school of thought. Or how he saw the world. Or knew it. But immediately after listening to us for twelve minutes, he had his judgment out: It's impossible. Too much friction. Reversible Processes don't exist in practice. Your idea is great in theory but it can't be implemented.
Crestfallen and challenged for hope, we came back and googled to find out something about the feasibility of our idea( So far, we assumed it's possible). What we found out confirmed our faith. The idea was not only practically feasible, some people had already begun implementing it. That sure gave us hope. Hope that we've been holding on to. Hope that some day we're going to get back to the dude and show him how the impossible was made true. We're going to tell him that easy as it was for him to dismiss what we had told him, there are some people who prefer to believe that impossible is nothing......
