The Impossibilities

I used to play as a kid. I played with my sisters and brother, we lived in magical worlds and wielded the elements has powers. We were poor, sometimes wealthy and royal, or other times we were the only ones who could save the world. We were important. But, most importantly, anything was possible. Our minds led us through different portals to other worlds that no others could create, for they came from what we secretly believed in and what desired to be true. I felt free.

My mind knew no concepts of barriers or the impossible, but as I reach adulthood I realize not everything is possible and fear is a very real thing. Everyone is stopped by fear or the realization that many things are impossible. In play, whatever you decided is true. And why can't that be true to our own lives? Why can't we have no fear, believe we can conquer things, believe we are special and that nothing can prevent us from achieving greatness?

Play taught me I can be anything and do anything, and I know it's silly, because maybe we can't actually fly or fire can't shoot out of our hands, but if I have the right amount of determination and faith, I can become who I desire to be.