Nesar Ahmad Siddiqui
3 min readOct 6, 2023

Somebody said impossible, and I was shocked.
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In this age of quick happenings, is it relevant?
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Last month, I was talking to someone about what we have done so far and what is likely to happen in this epoch when the world is looking beyond the sky. We can say we have been exploring a world of imagination beyond the facts of today. At one point, I was shocked when the person I was talking to said, "It is impossible" for something likely to be or not likely to be in the near future.
I lost track of my discussion and just stayed on his sentence; it is impossible. I was shocked. How can a man of practical life for half a century say this? It means he has not counted how many things have been added in the manufacturing sector, farm sector, aviation, health, innovation, and other domains of life.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others, says Sonathan Winters.
In this series of my thoughts, I went back to my past, when a few senior people in my village were repeating the same" it is impossible" in all discussions relating to social issues, girl aspirations, discoveries in medical science, and so on, 50 years ago.
By the way, most of the "impossible" was made possible during their lives, but they never realised their depth of shallow understanding.
They were reluctant to change what they learned in their upbringing and afterwards. Even they were conservatives in consuming grains grown on fertiliser for high yields at the start of the green revolution. Of course, their arguments were nonsense and never stood scrutiny.
Coming to the present moment, my own mind concluded:
Not trying leads to the impossible.
Trying makes it possible.
Anybody can trace the records, where all happenings are witnessing the chains of possibilities because people paid the cost with energy and determination to make things happen.
In this process, I got a chance to see a bold saying of Francis of Assisi, as below:
Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Then I drew some rough sketches of people saying "impossible" and inferred that:
1. They are not close to nature. They are not viewing scenic beauties, even in the surroundings.
2. They are consumers of all provisions, much more than their contribution, even trivial.
3. They believe in material gains. Their goals are to possess more.
4. They dislike going into details.
5. They claim more than their capabilities.
6. They are basically onlookers.
7. They have been appreciated, as they demanded.
8. They never looked inward, truly.
In my own career, I have seen many things happen that were not even in people’s imaginations a couple of decades ago. Many issues have been made easy, and in parallel, we have seen more tasks added to be addressed.
Impossible is an opinion of today. It keeps the door of possibility half open, with a challenge to open the door fully and see a world of new possibilities.
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 In brief
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Impossible is a relative term. It is not conclusive. Trying is the only condition to make the impossible possible. Think hundreds of times before uttering the impossible. It amounts to going against what is provided for us in the universe.

Nesar Ahmad Siddiqui
Nesar Ahmad Siddiqui

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