Personal Limits

This past Sunday I dressed up as MIB and put my own style into it. I just can't be seen without a bowler hat, but something interesting happened. No, someone didn't give me money and ask me to keep it close. I was asked, "If there was anything I couldn't do?"

  

MIB meets American Gangster

...and my response? Nope! Some of you may be thinking how arrogant/pretentious. Or 'You're one of those..', but no I'm not. The way I see it; why would I mentally limit myself by having a valid answer to that question? I mean I could have said give birth to children, but that is obvious..... or is it?

Its true that question really only gets asked to those who already seem like they already can do anything, but what if someone asked you that today. Right now. I'm asking you dear reader. 

Is there anything you can't do? 

It should be a one word answer, but the world we live in makes us think otherwise. In people's minds all over the world they are thinking...

I can't be a model cause I'm not tall enough.

I can't be a astronaut cause I'm not smart enough.

I can't buy the house I want cause I'm not rich enough. 

I can't find the girl/guy of my dreams cause I don't look good enough.

The list goes on and on, but we really need to define the difference between things we can't do and things we won't do. I won't be a politician, I could become one should everything I know be wrong, but really That.Ain't.Happnin'.  We can do anything, but having an answer other than 'no' to that question installs this glass ceiling over our heads. While we 'see and hear' that the sky is the limit we don't really believe it. 

We have to remove this ceiling whether it is in the way we talk to others or ourselves. I've caught myself saying it quite a few times. Especially after getting a resume handed back to me (multiple times) because my number between 0 and 4 wasn't high enough to do something. I began to think if I didn't have the grades there was no point in applying to certain places, but then I take a step back and look at two drop outs in particular. Bill Gates is a Harvard drop out and Richard Branson CEO of Virgin is a high school drop out and he owns an island. They are worth $67B and $4B respectively. Dropouts...

The stories are there. Some obvious some not. In this country the media tends to shy away from people who beats the odds because... 'Merica. It reminds me of A Bug's Life (which now I want to watch again) when you find out the only reason the ants feed the grasshoppers is because they don't know otherwise. They had no idea how strong and gifted they were.

Some of us mentally/emotionally/physically are telling ourselves. They come, they eat, they leave. They come, they eat, they leave. Simply because that's the way its always been done. Like life will eventually plateau, but you know what plateaus remind me of? A great foundation to build something greater because you can do anything.