The Way
Forward For The Impossible Species
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How we can make the impossible possible in our
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"Start by
doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing
the impossible."
– St. Francis
of Assisi
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In case you’re wondering, any
references on this page to "The Impossible Species" actually refers
to human beings, not mice trying to
get pieces of cheese!
Here are a few
other interesting things that people have said about impossible
things:
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"Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible,
that one would die
in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish
line, I figured I
was dead."
Roger Bannister
after becoming the first person to break the 4-minute mile in
1952.
(Now the record is 3:43:13. Nobody is
saying the sub 3 and a half minute mile is
impossible!
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"Heavier-than-air
flying machines are impossible."
William
Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British scientist, 1899.
"Drill for
oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're
crazy."
Workers whom
Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil,
1859.
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Okay so you get what I'm
saying, right? Sporting records and things we consider as natural as
breathing air – like flying and drilling for oil - are often called "impossible". But ordinary, committed
human beings just like you and me – not super heroes or characters in a fantasy novel – made them possible without
having to break the law, abuse anybody or use anything other than their own steam and a powerful sense of
focus.
This
web site builds on this premise and is designed to
help you make the most of whatever impossible situation you may find yourself in, without resorting to negative or
harmful behaviour and to turn the experience around into something life-affirming and positive.
The
Serious Stuff!
Before we get into the nitty-gritty of how to handle impossible situations responsibly and positively - an
observation of mine that will help explain my motivation for making this site:
Wherever you look around the world, humanity is in one big heap of a mess.
It's like watching with horror a downhill bicycle race with no-one in control. More and more people are
becoming depressed, angry, frustrated and feeling hopeless and helpless with the state of the world and with their
own lives.
The majority of people are sitting back waiting for someone else to sort it out or think it is all too hard or they
have no power to do much anyway and …what the hell, after coming home from work in a job they can't stand, they are
too stuffed or angry to do anything but watch the telly or swallow more pills or booze or even abuse their
partner or kids.
Welcome to the human rat race in the 21st Century!
Your
"Impossible" Situation?
Yes, the world's in a mess but you've got your own problems to deal with, right?
If you find yourself facing an "impossible" personal situation that's driving you mad it's probably related to one
of the following:
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A relationship that's breaking down with a partner, family member or friend
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A work situation that's gone awry
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An emotional problem
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A physical or mental health problem
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A financial problem
Loosely speaking human beings' problems will fall into one of these areas and each one has the capacity to make us
frustrated, unbalanced, desperate, depressed, anxious, severely upset, irrational, sick, unpredictable.
Our responses may be one or many of the following:
Why is it happening to me?
What have I done to deserve this?
I don’t understand why this has to happen now, at this time of my life
What exactly is happening here?
I didn’t choose for it to be like this
He's to blame/She's to blame…not me
How can I help the situation? It's not my fault it's like this
Help!
Leave me alone!
I don’t need anyone poking their nose into my business
You'll be familiar with some of these responses, no doubt. Many are common
responses that come from a "victim mentality" of someone who feels that Mother
Earth and everyone are against them and that nobody's ever felt emotional pain
or trauma like them.
With this mentality it's difficult to tackle anything, let alone an impossible
situation.
They miss the fact that many of the situations we find ourselves in are
opportunities to learn and experience. And that as human beings we are all
connected to one another.
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Tackling the Impossible
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How do we rebuild our lives when everything comes tumbling down around us, like a
house of cards?
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And the Biggest Impossibility of
All.....
…..Coming face to face with our own mortality – the
realization that we too shall pass!
We are doomed to get old and die from the moment we
are born and we know it ahead of time.
This makes humans a very peculiar creature. We
live our whole lives dimly aware that we are fated to die. So what?
Well, this really does put us in an impossible situation. Somehow we have evolved a brain that is
just too clever for its own good because whatever it does it knows with absolute certainty that it
cannot survive for more than about eighty years.
What's the solution to our predicament?
It seems to me that the number of unhappy and frustrated people is
growing. This means that we have to try something different; the old
methods are not working!
Are we being too shallow in our analysis of our common
problems and dilemmas? Or are we looking in the wrong places?
Retail therapy is not going to help many people climb
out of the morass of their impossible situation though it may make them feel good for a few
minutes. There is no buying our way out of this one.
It’s not a question of religion either. I'm not going
to throw "God" at you as the answer to all of your problems.
How We Are Different
This web site drills down and down and down and
looks at the root causes of the human condition and through gaining these insights we
understand how we can make the impossible possible in a creative, cooperative and
compassionate way.
It's a big mission. Many would say "impossible". I
refer you to the top of this page!
3 Big
Questions We Tackle
1.
What game is evolution
playing?
2.
Who am I?
3.
What am I going to do with my impossible life? (After
grappling with the first two big questions)
You see – it's mainly about YOU!
What
Can You Do and Where Do You Start?
I welcome your contributions and involvement in whatever way you wish to participate. This might
include contributing to my blog, or emailing me an article or brief thoughts on any subject you
wish.
A good place for you to start is my
article,
It Takes Courage.
There are lots of free articles, dialogues and
other resources on this site and you are only a few clicks away from something that will interest
you. If you find an article that interests you, but you don't have time to read it right now, feel
free to print it out for later. Whenever you print an article from this site with your web browser,
you'll get a good-looking formatted printout with no navigation elements - just the article
content.
If you'd like to see an example of how any page will look when
printed, just use your browser's Print Preview feature (File -> Print Preview... on most
browsers).
Gary
Hipworth
The Impossible Man
P.S. Ignorance is
definitely not bliss...from my personal experience it causes terrible suffering, violence,
stupidity and wasted lives.
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