Sometimes it seems like life opens in an infinite and exponential way - revealing truth, mystery, and life. It may be hard to spot at first - something small, something seemingly inconsequential - but if you are really looking you may find something. True, it may not be what you are looking for, but maybe you really didn't know what your "answers" look like. Some come disguised as tests of faith, tests of self-esteem or even simply another question. Perhaps you weren't looking with your eyes open - isn't this almost as bad as not looking to begin with? What is possible once you have convinced yourself that ANYTHING is? Does it take letting go of the thought that there are some things that aren't possible in order to truly embrace the possibility that anything can happen and everything is within your reach?
Is that naive?
To think that I can do anything is almost like believing that some man is coming on a white horse to sweep me off my feet. Oh, and he is a prince (of course) with so much money that I save all of the whales manatees and otters in the world. In fact, I can build them a tank all their own.. or maybe I'll just purchase the oceans and then I can have ultimate control over them. Might as well just be empress of the world.
If "Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities" as Aristotle suggests than we are to believe in the possibly impossible. But I can't even comprehend what the difference is. If it is impossible isn't it by definition improbable - in fact possibly even BEYOND improbable.. like.. IMPOSSIBLE!? IT may be unlikely but it's at least possible, yes?
What does it mean for something to be possible? Perhaps this is at the heart of Aristotle's argument. I am not sure I honestly have a good clear idea of what it means to be possible. Eek. What does it mean?!
Love,
M
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