Impossible is Nothing...

The more I heard stories about eating out of garbage cans and sleeping under bridges, wild blackouts and stealing to get the next drink or fix (some of them claimed to have more than one addiction), the more I felt an adverse effect taking hold of me.  Instead of fear or worry about becoming that type of person, I felt more compelled to drink because of how stressful a life that seemed to be.  To rummage around looking for a temporary sense of fulfillment that lead them to a life riddled with pain and suffering of some sorts.  Then to finally seek a solution in a program that focuses on working “steps” to lead a sober life, one day at a time, I wasn’t sure what to make out of any of those stories other than I didn’t want to hear them anymore.

Alcoholics Anonymous and I have tussled with one another for almost a year.  The stories hardly vary, yet the people look like anyone you’d randomly meet on the street.  Sure, when you think alcoholic or you think of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, you get this picture this down-trodden, hand-trembling, babbling fool. 


Could they have been capable of greatness?  Could they have been sane enough at one point in time to function like a normal human being? 

Some of you may or may have not known that some of the most famous people of our time were addicts to some type of substance or drug.  Don’t think that it’s just alcohol or drugs that people can become addicted to, though.  Some people are addicted to sex.  Food.  Money (is that really good or bad???).  Whatever the vice may be, you often hear people say too much of one thing is not good for you.

Webster’s defines an “addiction” as the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice ot to something that is psychologically or physically habit forming.

While it may not be a physical substance that we can ingest, sniff, or inject into our bodies, we can also become addicted to a mindset that forces us to have “tunnel vision” about a particular area of our lives that makes us uneasy or uncomfortable.  We settle into the humdrum of its existence because we believe not only was this supposed to happen to us, but that we must accept this part of our lives as an area that we’ve failed in, leaving us two options:

• Concede to our addiction to mediocrity and accept the truth that we just weren’t meant to have the type of lives we dreamed of living.

Or...

• Focus on putting forth a concentrated effort into our passions to create a purpose in which path and provisions manifest as a means to achieve a fulfilling existence.

Really, what is it that we get from just living life "on life's terms???"  By conceding to our defective thoughts and actions that not only affect our lives but the lives of those around us???  Why are we compelled to accept things for the way they are rather than make steps to improve our disposition by seeking knowledge, taking a stance, and putting boots to --- (you can thank "The Rock" for that quote).


By accepting failure, we rebuke the idea of change.  We accept the idea of dying with regret, knowing that we never tried (or tried hard enough) to fight the surpression of mediocrity within us.  We embrace "impossible" as a solution and close off the path to destiny's star that was designed for each of us.  We settle on the notion that we are incappable of injecting a sense of meaning into areas in our lives that afford us the opportunity to live better, love harder, and shout louder to all that will listen no truer words than these:


Impossible is Nothing