Our lives are clouded with myriad things we believe we cannot change. We float through the days and nights, stoned--overly intoxicated by our anxieties. I saw through the fog. I saw that all the things I believed would never change (the good and the bad), were passing through my life. Nothing was here to stay. Everything was for this moment, this place in time. All would eventually dissipate like the fog that covers a dark city before twilight, rising up, revealing the life beneath. The perceived darkness, lasting only for a moment, allowed me to briefly see or hear what was required for my growth and learn all that would eventually mold me into a great and wise soul.

What we imagine to be the night of life never lasts long, except for those whose vision is clouded by uncertainty and fear. Paralyzing fear serves as nothing more than subterfuge. We are fooled (or fool ourselves) into thinking we cannot be this, cannot do that, cannot go here, cannot simply be--change is impossible; we spread this belief as gospel and sometimes, as a plague. Yet, our existence proves that words like "impossible" and "unlikely" are misnomers in our grand language, terms used to conceal the fear that we are not the omniscient center of the universe. This realization, that nothing is impossible, engenders hope. It helps us to see that transformation or metamorphosis in every area of our lives is, in deed, possible. What we see, or don't see, (believe or don't believe) does not alter the existence or possibility of the thing, whatever that thing may be.

Embracing these truths can mean the difference between living a life filled with "what ifs" compared to a life deluged with memories of all the grand things attempted and gained. See through the fog as I have. Believe that anything is possible. You are here. You are a mathematical and scientific impossibility, yet, you are here. All else, then, is more than possible, it is inevitable.