Octav Druta

Innovation Zealot. Enjoying life outside the box.

August 25, 2009 at 1:27pm
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How do you define your anything? →

Did you find yourself at least once saying: “Anything is possible”? Were you aware that your affirmation was bounded by certain circumstances?

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If you had all the time in the universe, you’d say that anything is possible. You can’t have all the time in the universe so “anything”, becomes bounded by your life span.

If you understood all the knowledge in the world, you’d say that anything is possible. You won’t be able to learn that much so anything, becomes bounded by your education.

My family, the place I grew up, a bit of my education are some of the choices that I didn’t make. Those choices bounded my “anything” by default. There is the time and many other factors that I don’t control which constantly limit my “anything”. How am I supposed to know whether anything is possible for me if “anything” is inaccessible or impossible to define?

If you want to say: “Anything is possible”, you need to define anything first. Since “anything” can not be looked at and described, I started a journey to create the “anything”. My past is immutable, I am busy living my present, so the only place left to put anything in is the future. That’s why I build my anything by creating dreams.

It’s clear that doing, in other words: working on my dreams, will require time. Helen Keller said that “We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough”. Isn’t she right?

What’s your anything? How do you create your anything? How do you think about anything? Submit a link, a comment, a picture, your dreams, describe it. I am curious to know about it.

PS: You might think that anything is just anything and anything is beyond your thinking or feelings. That is a perspective in which anything needs not to be defined. Consider that not wanting to define anything puts you in state where you refuse to use your imagination. Not useful: if you want my opinion.

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