“But Ma! This isn’t how any of this works.” That’s Shubham to me. “Okay! So what can be done to make it work?” Me to him. “Ma, nothing can make it work.” “But there must be something that will work.” This is how our conversation usually goes whenever I want him to Photoshop something for me or he is editing the Scienty Kids videos. The best part is it usually does work may be not totally up to my expectation or as I visualised but the end result is either good enough for me to accept or is way better than what we had started with. The same goes with almost everything. Shubham feels that he should not commit if he is not cent percent sure because I will eat his head off if things don’t pan out and he does not want that. Fair enough! The point of my contention is, it is not often that one is hundred percent sure to be able to commit.
All the new lands discovered, terrains conquered and the technological advancements that we see today are a result of man’s desire to explore ways to find what can work. A simple desire to fly like birds would not have ever materialised if everyone thought that it cannot happen. No one ever knew how could man fly nor was anyone sure of the way to make an aeroplane. But generation after generation persisted, tried, tested and today we can not only fly like birds, with birds but also fly to the frontiers which even the birds have not explored, that is the outer space.
The North and the South Poles and the Everest would have remained unconquered if every one thought that it was impossible to conquer them or would not try because they were not totally convinced of its success. Success is a very relative term. It is a mindset, what may be success to me might be seen as a failure by someone else. Trying to up your game and reaching there is success. This is a continuous process and one must keep setting the bar high. One succeeds every time the bar is crossed; it is a victory, no matter what the others say.
Yes, one should have realistic goals but what is real? If reality was to be believed bees would have been the last species to fly. The rules of aerodynamics say that a bumblebee cannot fly given its heavy body and small wings. But luckily the bumblebee does not know this nor has it studied enough Physics to sit and do nothing. It just tried to find what could work and follows an incredibly complex way to be able to fly. If every person with a disability was to stay bedridden or committed to asylum, the paralympics would not have been taking place, we would not have been reading stories of Helen Keller, Stephen Hawking, Evelyn Glennie and the likes in school textbooks.
It is when the life is taken away and you are still left breathing that you must stand up to do your duty of living to the best of your ability because that is what is expected. It can not be done is for the losers to say, the winners say let’s see how can it be done or what else can be done? Since, the word Impossible itself says I’m possible.