What would you do if nothing was impossible?

What do you think is impossible? Time travel? Raising the dead? Peace on Earth?

I read this quote yesterday, it got me thinking:

What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible. – Theodore Rathke – 1908-1963 – U.S. Poet and Educator

I’ve heard self-help gurus ask – What would you do if money was not an obstacle? If you could do anything? But I’ve never heard anyone ask, what would you do if nothing were impossible? Impossible… what a limiting word. But it is there… there are things we believe are impossible, right? Like traveling faster than the speed of light or raising the dead. But outside the obvious ones, what else do you think is impossible?

When I asked myself the question, I was surprised at my answers. Here is a short list of what I would do if I could do the impossible (not in order of importance):

· Cure Cancer

· Cure paralysis

· Create peace in the Middle East

· Create Peace in Africa

· Free every person on Earth from government oppression and corruption

· Educate every human being on earth about Macro and Micro economics, thereby ending poverty.

· Educate every human being about the power of acceptance

· Find out if there are other worlds with conscious life forms

I know this may seem like wishing for miracles, but wasn’t space travel once impossible? How about human flight? What about a cure for small pox and polio? What about peace in Western Europe? After thousands of years of war, we’ve had 62 years of peace in Western Europe – a place that has seen the world’s bloodiest wars. Isn’t that a miracle?

What about the global economy? The internet? New prosperity in every corner of the globe? Aren’t those miracles as well?

I want to hear what you’d do if nothing were impossible…

So go ahead and leave your list in the comments or write a post linking back to this one with a trackback.

By Guest Blogger by Steve Olson – For People Pursuing Freedom

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