And since he didn’t know it was impossible, he did it

People who do not fight to achieve their dreams often tell others that they will not achieve theirs either. You don’t have to listen to them, trying, the impossible can sometimes be achieved. Read this story carefully.

Once upon a time there were two children who were skating on a frozen lagoon. It was a cloudy and cold afternoon, but the children played without worry. Suddenly, the ice burst and one of the children fell into the water, getting trapped. The other boy, seeing that his friend was drowning under the ice, took a stone and began to hit it with all his strength until he managed to break the icy layer, grabbed his friend and saved him.

When the firefighters arrived and saw what had happened, they wondered how he did it, because the ice was very thick.

– “It is impossible that he could have broken it with that stone and his hands are so small,” they stated.

At that moment an old man appeared and said:

– “I know how he did it.”

– “As?”

– “There was no one around him to tell him he couldn’t do it.”.

When they tell us we can’t

How many of you stopped somewhere along the way because someone told you not to continue, that you would never reach your goal? Probably all of them more than once and facing very different questions.

I have known tremendous cases of conviction. Teachers, fathers and mothers, brothers, friends…, determined to make someone completely useless. It sounds harsh, I know, but I have seen too many times the compassionate look at an effort that is believed to be in vain.

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And it’s true, it has happened to all of us, there are countless things that we have never done throughout our existence because we have been told that we would not achieve it and we have believed it. The amount of options that life has given us and that we have not even tried to take advantage of is enormous. because we already “knew” in advance that we were not going to reach our goal.

There are many ways to discourage, each one more painful.. I have been able to hear hundreds of times: “you’re not going to get it“, “do not waste your time“, “you are wasting your life” and countless similar phrases.

But most of the time it’s something more subtle, I have been able to appreciate looks of compassion, sarcasm and mockeryof desperation and incomprehension in the face of the enormous effort that small and great heroes made to achieve something.

Almost nothing is impossible

There are people who think that they will not be able to learn a language, get in shape, overcome their shyness, win a trophy or that it will be impossible for them to learn to drive. We have seen it countless times…And we have also observed thousands of times how The most devastating and fatal premonitions are those that come from the family or school. Because?

Because is from those two great pillars is that we develop and give free rein to our ability to improve. That is, when we are little, what others tell us is not only a brake or stimulation, but it shapes our identity and the image we have of ourselves.

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Furthermore, based on the fact that we reproduce the behavioral patterns that we learn from the people around us, It is even likely that we have believed that someone would not achieve something. After all, statistically, it is likely that we are guilty of being dream killers (even if we know that it is harmful and we try to avoid it).

It really is possible and it really is If it can’t be done one way, it will be done another way. As Edison said, “Those who say it is impossible should not bother or interrupt those of us who are trying.”

We can do whatever we want if we try hard enough, because wanting does not mean power, but it certainly helps and it is the only way to achieve it.

The inner strength

Everyone who applies today’s story and breaks their ice to save themselves from certain death. We have within us the strength to fall a thousand times and get up a thousand times., to run out of tears and not forget to smile. We have the courage to face pain and put back together the pieces that others broke.

Those of us who pursue a goal know that set goals is the first, turning a deaf ear to dream killers is the second, and reaching a point of no return is the third, that is, the moment in which we only have the option of achieving it.

We can, if we want, settle our pending accounts because, I tell you in the words of Seneca, “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that things are difficult”. So If you want to get where most people don’t, you need to do something that most people don’t do: believe it!