{"id":32734,"date":"2021-07-08T10:26:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T10:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=32734"},"modified":"2021-07-08T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T10:26:32","slug":"creating-the-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2021\/07\/08\/creating-the-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating the impossible."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Why don\u2019t you grow horns?<\/h3>\n<p>I am dead serious.<\/p>\n<p>Why don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now if you don\u2019t WANT horns, I get it, that\u2019s a pretty solid argument.<\/p>\n<p>But what if the only reason people don\u2019t grow horns is because they simply don\u2019t know they can?<\/p>\n<p>There are a billion times a billion plus things in life that I could probably do if I just knew how.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn\u2019t help much, though, if I\u2019d start by believing it can\u2019t be done.<\/p>\n<p>And I would be wrong, too.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that I don\u2019t know how to create specific results (like horns) doesn\u2019t say anything about the feasibility, the possibility.<\/p>\n<p>It just says I don\u2019t have the knowledge or the insight or the skills or the conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Yet.<\/p>\n<p>It just says I haven\u2019t found a way to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Yet.<\/p>\n<p>But what if anything, I mean ANYTHING is possible and doable and creatable, and simply relies on your willingness to try and overcome your present inability, your stubborn disbelief?<\/p>\n<p>Who says people can\u2019t ultimately fly without machines or tools?<\/p>\n<p>Who says you can\u2019t lose 50 pounds of fat overnight?<\/p>\n<p>Who says you can\u2019t shed your chronic depression in a second?<\/p>\n<p>I am sure someone, somewhere did it.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow they stopped believing that it was impossible.<\/p>\n<p>And don\u2019t give me that lame-ass excuse about natural laws.<\/p>\n<p>We are vibrating energy, for fuck\u2019s sake!<\/p>\n<p>I am sure we\u2019re capable of growing horns, or fingers, or bank accounts, or hair, just like that.<\/p>\n<p>But I also believe these things are to be mastered and acquired.<\/p>\n<p>And for good reason.<\/p>\n<p>I love us, the stumbling hard working human bodies and minds that we seem to be, but we would mess up everything if we were able to do and create everything we can think of, just like that.<\/p>\n<p>We are just not smart enough to make all our wishes and dreams and visions come true, in a responsible and helpful way, because we have no clue about the implications.<\/p>\n<p>The whole world would have horns or big boobs and private jets and nobody would ever be sick again or in turmoil or doubt.<\/p>\n<p>We wouldn\u2019t be able to handle and respect the power.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why it is hidden from us.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why it is supposed to be undoable, that\u2019s why it LOOKS impossible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn\u2019t mean it IS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Photo by @alessandrolabecca, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why don\u2019t you grow horns? I am dead serious. Why don\u2019t you? &#8230; Now if you don\u2019t WANT horns, I get it, that\u2019s a pretty solid argument. But what if the only reason people don\u2019t grow horns is because they simply don\u2019t know they can? 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