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I can't sleep. I barely slept yesterday and it's almost 6am and I'm still awake. Feeling stuck in life right now and unmotivated and kind of lonely and anxious and bad about myself out of nowhere. This week is a rough one.

So, I thought I'd do this. A seemingly impossible dreams list.

Everyone says a dream they have that seems impossible to them and say why. Then rewrite it as possible.

I'll start.

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Impossible: I want to move to DC to be closer to my best friend. But it's never going to happen because I'm too anxious to live so far away from my dad, and I will never have enough money to move states. It's impossible.

Possible: I want to move to DC to be closer to my best friend. It could happen; because I am strong, and I can get a therapist once I am there and call my dad every day. I am working hard to make money, and there's no reason I won't eventually have enough to move if I believe in myself and keeping working. It's possible.

((This is a great activity, because it involves visualization, and visualization is powerful.))

Impossible: Someday, I'd like to make a living writing. I'd like to write fiction and science fiction books that are so good, hundreds of thousands or millions of people are eager to read them. So good, that they change peoples' lives. So good, they feel like reading my book is a life-changing experience, and they were not the same person before they read my book as they are after (something every truly great book does, imo). But it'll probably never happen, because I can't write well enough. It's a pipe dream. Maybe even a delusion of grandeur. I didn't take writing in school. I got the wrong degree for me. I didn't start practicing writing fiction young enough, and it's really hard to write something good enough to publish, let alone promote it enough to make it popular. It's probably impossible because I'm disorganized and have trouble following through on my life.

Possible: This is possible because, if I really love to write, I will keep writing, and writing, and writing, until I'm the best at it and until it's really good. I've made progress already, and it's only been less than 6 months. God is with me; finding this site was like a tutorial in how to write fiction, just after I had started writing my autobiography, which was as dry as bones before I started roleplaying. I didn't plan that. That was God. That was Serendipity. Now my autobiography sounds less like a thesis paper and more like a riveting novel because of this experience.

It's possible because, even if it doesn't become well-read or popular, I will enjoy writing it, which will lead to the rest. "Follow your bliss," says that if you do what you love, you'll have good results.

It's possible that I will be a successful author because I have something to say. I have something to say--SO MUCH to say--and that message needs to be heard. I have so much to say. It's a message that the world longs to hear. The messages can literally only be communicated in the language of story, not with mere words, but with stories, for it's not a message I want to communicate, it's an experience. It's not just words, it's thoughts, feelings, perspectives, awareness, transcendence, LOVE.

I better hurry up and learn the language of stories, because I can't tell these things any other way. And I must. It's also possible because if John Green did it with The Fault In Our Stars, why can't we do it? It's possible because everyone starts out as an amateur. Everyone starts out from somewhere.

It's possible because there is a lot of free time in life, and there's enough free time to learn to write. It's possible because practically every single member of our family is some kind of artist, either professionally or as a hobby. We're artists. It's in our blood.

It's possible because there's a community of writers that will help support me, like J.R.R. Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams (who wrote "All Hallow's Eve"), and many other writers helped each other as members of the small writers' group called "The Inklings" at Oxford University where they read their manuscripts to each other, and where member Hugo Dyson famously said "Oh ****, not another elf!" upon hearing J.R.R. Tolkein start reading yet another excerpt of the tale he was working on: Lord of the Rings. From that group of writers came LOTR and Narnia. We are like that and there are "in real life" writing clubs like that, and with that kind of support, sharing, critiquing, and enjoying of one another's work, it's possible. ∞

I just wanted to say that I totally relate even though I'm only 21. I dropped out of high school and struggle with feeling smart enough. Also, my best friend is 29 and working on her first book right now as well, and we are going to start our own publishing company someday. It's never to late

Thanks! And power to you and your friend. I've read the excerpts of your book here and there, with Jax...and I like it. Keep on truckin'

So I’ll go with my most impossible dream I have, though I have a ton of them...

Impossible : I want to create magic, for this world is grey and I want to full it with colour. But it’s impossible because magic doesn’t exist and in our poor world, anything that might ressemble magic is technology...

Possible : I can create magic, for that I discovered that magic is the sparkle in the eye of a dear one, it is at the sunset when you take the time to enjoy the scenery, it is when you you love someone, it is when someone loves you, even better, it is when love ain’t unrequited... magic is the sparkle of life we have, it is when a new baby comes in this world, it is when someone sees all your demons inside and love you nonetheless, not despite those, but because of who you are... it is even in our tears, as we cannot cry if we didn’t wanted to love something or someone, might it be ourselves... it is in every of our little success, it is even there when we don’t succeed, because we have tried so hard! Magic is happiness, magic is hope, magic is in our very soul

You do make magic.
This post is magic.
You make magic when you write words that make me feel, even though I am thousands of miles away.
You have magic.
You ARE magic.

I read the bit about novels, yea?

That's awesome, write write write!! I, too, am writing a novel!



Impossible: I wish to finish my novel before college, but I know I can't do it. I started two years ago and have around twenty pages, but I keep losing my notebooks!! I only have TWO PARAGHRAPHS written on Wattpad!.... If I can't stop losing the physical copy, how can I copy it online????

Possible: I can do it, but.... Not on my own. I don't have good enough of a memory to remember where my notebooks are or to type what I've written, at least not without help. This isn't me being pessimistic- It's just me stating the facts. But.... I can do it!! I know I can, because I have determination! (I'm actually so determined, I have a determination trophy!! )

Impossible: I want to become a tourist guide in Turkey, Morocco or similar countries, but I know that it will never happen. Others expect of me to finish high school, go to university and study for yeeears because "I am such a bright kid". But being 19 and in my second year of high school, it all just seems impossible and not what I want to do at all. But I can't drop out because everyone is telling me how that would be the most stupid thing in the world. And my parents ridicule me for having a dream of becoming a tourist guide because "I am way too shy, I don't speak much and I have way too much anxiety". Besides, I'm broke and while most educations are free in Denmark, the guide one is not.

Possible: I want to become a tourist guide in Turkey, Morrocco or somewhere similar and it might happen. I shouldn't care if others expect me to finish high school, go to university and study for yeeears. What I should care about is whether it makes me happy and focus on what I want to do. It doesn't matter if others perceive me as a "bright kid", it doesn't mean I have to use it the way they see fit. If I don't want to finish high school with the purpose of going to university, maybe I should finish it with the purpose of what I actually want. It doesn't matter if others think it's stupid of me to drop out, if it's not right, it's not right and I need to figure out the path that I wanna go down. And if my parents don't support my dreams, then that is too bad. I am the one who chooses what I want to do with my life and if they can't accept that, that is just too bad. No matter if I am broke or not, it is still going to be my dream, so I would just have to find some way to make it work financially.

Anything is possible. I believe in you. Thank you for sharing!

You can do it! I know you can!

I have tons of writing, planning and organizing tips if you're ever interested. I'm 96k words into my first novel, and it's been one heck of a journey. I lost my first few chapters that I printed out for editing, and had to print them out and mark them all over again for editing during the first draft, and on this second draft I've been stuck on the last two chapters for about two months.

So I would totally love to talk, and share my experience, and anything that might help you, and just chat in general about it. Us authors got to stick together.

This is very sweet, and such a different dream than other dreams I've ever heard about, but very much possible all the same. I believe in you, and all of us.

I agree with you. While I recommend finishing high school definitely, I think it is good to get some work experience for some people before starting college because it can lead you to be sure of the right thing to study in college...like maybe something that lines up with your passions of traveling and talking about great places (geography is one major like that, for example, and maybe hospitality). But yesss work experience is so important so maybe you can do that!!

Thanks, Tardis!!!