Six Impossible Things before breakfast.

"Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

While this quote is more known now from Tim Burton's film, it was originally said by the White Queen in "Through the Looking Glass." I have found this quote, along with the Hatter's idea of "muchness," to be the most inspiring things from the books and the movies. Although it is hard for someone in our world today to think of "impossible" things and not let reality seep in, I have been trying ever since I saw the movie and read the two books. I find that thinking of impossible things is somewhat like a goals list, at least it is for me. I write down six impossible things that I think will take too long to come true, or may never come true, and work towards them. My husband and I even have a list of our combined six impossible things on our fridge. It seems to keep us going every day.

Today is a day where all I want to do is soak in the world around me and be inspired. I want to stop waiting on the world to change, and start changing the world-- but that seems to be one of my six impossible things. I tend to complain when there's nothing to complain about, and say I'm tired when I'm fully rested. Instead of disciplining myself to write and edit what I'm working on, I make excuses to myself and just let it fly by, and then blame someone else for the problem later. I have the issue of blaming everything on small mishaps or things that don't matter:

"I can't write in this room, it's too dark and dismal,"

"I need to do something. Let's go somewhere or change something or do SOMETHING that makes me want to do more with my life,"

"I can't do anything because of school, because I have to find a job, because time is going by so slow, because time is going by too fast...."

"I just need more time to myself. I can't do anything when I'm constantly around people,"

The list goes on. I am constantly full of excuses. While I know many people are this way, I can't seem to change it. I'm constantly trying to thing more positively or do more things that bring joy to others as well as myself or do things just for me or do this or do that, but my problem is it just doesn't seem to be enough.

Like so many others, I want a full life. Right now, my life doesn't seem that full, which is awful of me to say. I have a wonderful family, wonderful friends, I'm getting a wonderful education, I'm doing so many things that others don't have the opportunities to do, and yet I'm full of negativity.

So, how do I make this one impossible thing, possible?