Hope ~ Dreaming the Impossible Dream
As we all go for goals that are bigger than we are, some so big they feel more like dreams, the question of how can I keep hoping when there are no hints in front of me.
I have found small ways to combat it, but last night a story brought home just how hope and determination can do anything & everything.
Have you seen the movie Apollo 13? Apollo 13 is about the Apollo 13 space mission. The fact that NASA gave it the number 13 was quite prophetic. The number 13 is associated with bad things happening, and lets face it - nothing but bad things happened to that ship.
First, part of their ship blew off. They lost most of their oxygen and most of their power. They had to use a LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) as a life-raft for their trip around the moon and back. They had to turn off the LEM engines so as to have power for the end of their trip. They had too much carbon dioxide at one point that had to be dealt with. They came in too shallow and had the possibility of skiffing off the atmosphere into space. Added to that, at the last moment they saw exactly what had been done to the original craft and the question as to whether their heat-shield or their parachutes would work.
While all this was happening, it was in the news all over the world. There were some that thought the way many think of their goals - "They aren't going to make it" ~ "The odds are stacked against them" ~ "There is no way out of this". Now, if the astronauts and most of NASA Houston had thought the same way, the story would have turned out much different. But, as it was, the astronauts were focused completely on getting home. There were those at NASA who would not take no for an answer. "We will not lose these men!". They would not accept the finality of the mission. Instead they were always saying "I don't want to hear 'We Can't' I only want to hear 'We Can'".
As we know, they got home - against all odds, against reality. Why? Because they knew that current reality does not matter. Current reality is not the marker by which they lived. They focused on the end result - getting those three astronauts home safely. And they succeeded.
If this was happening today, how would you react to the situation? Would you be one of the naysayers? Or one of those working toward the impossible goal?
Today doesn't matter. What matters is to strive toward the goal, to keep striving towards it, knowing that it will happen. Dream the Impossible Dream - go for it, never looking back. For you too, can live the life you have always imagined.
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star
This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far
To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause
And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest
And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star
I have found small ways to combat it, but last night a story brought home just how hope and determination can do anything & everything.
Have you seen the movie Apollo 13? Apollo 13 is about the Apollo 13 space mission. The fact that NASA gave it the number 13 was quite prophetic. The number 13 is associated with bad things happening, and lets face it - nothing but bad things happened to that ship.
First, part of their ship blew off. They lost most of their oxygen and most of their power. They had to use a LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) as a life-raft for their trip around the moon and back. They had to turn off the LEM engines so as to have power for the end of their trip. They had too much carbon dioxide at one point that had to be dealt with. They came in too shallow and had the possibility of skiffing off the atmosphere into space. Added to that, at the last moment they saw exactly what had been done to the original craft and the question as to whether their heat-shield or their parachutes would work.
While all this was happening, it was in the news all over the world. There were some that thought the way many think of their goals - "They aren't going to make it" ~ "The odds are stacked against them" ~ "There is no way out of this". Now, if the astronauts and most of NASA Houston had thought the same way, the story would have turned out much different. But, as it was, the astronauts were focused completely on getting home. There were those at NASA who would not take no for an answer. "We will not lose these men!". They would not accept the finality of the mission. Instead they were always saying "I don't want to hear 'We Can't' I only want to hear 'We Can'".
As we know, they got home - against all odds, against reality. Why? Because they knew that current reality does not matter. Current reality is not the marker by which they lived. They focused on the end result - getting those three astronauts home safely. And they succeeded.
If this was happening today, how would you react to the situation? Would you be one of the naysayers? Or one of those working toward the impossible goal?
Today doesn't matter. What matters is to strive toward the goal, to keep striving towards it, knowing that it will happen. Dream the Impossible Dream - go for it, never looking back. For you too, can live the life you have always imagined.
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star
This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far
To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause
And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest
And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star
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