practice believing impossible things

So. Following my Cheshire cat quotes post I now have a white queen in “through the looking glass” quote.

Looking Glass is loosely based on a game of chess …. A game (by the way) that takes some imagination as well as a fairly pragmatic point of view in analyzing all the possibilities.  I guess in some way to be really good at chess you have to envision the impossible in some way (and then make it possible).

Now.

The White Queen (the Queen of Diamonds) is one of the queens; there is also the red queen, in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. The white queen lives backwards in time due to the fact that she lives through the eponymous looking glass. And the White Queen’s move in the chess game is rather pointless though characteristic of her stupidity.

Oh. Unlike the queen in Wonderland (who was a royal bitch … pun intended) the White Queen is an absent-minded, unkempt, anxious woman in Looking Glass. In fact, every time Alice encounters the White Queen, Alice needs to take care of her – either helping her get to her crying child, fixing her shawl and hair, or patting her on the head and singing her a lullaby.

And, yet, it is the queen who believes in the impossible (and because she lives backwards she knows what the future supposedly holds as possible). Yes. She has seen the end of the day and thinks in the morning of impossible things. Silly? Heck. I don’t know.

But. THERE is an imagination.

Interestingly (at least to me) the White Queen reflects a role reversal with Alice.  She shows that adults can be more childish than children. She also gives Alice a chance to feel superior, more organized and mature.

Anyway. The queen reminds us (in an admittedly wacky way) that dreaming isn’t just for kids.

It also shows us that even while living life backwards she starts her day by thinking impossible things. The point? (at least the first I will point out).

Even if you think you know for sure what will happen it may be worth some time to rethink and think about what may seemingly be impossible (given what you think you know).

Next.

But most adults just don’t have the capacity to believe even one impossible thing before breakfast, much less six. Let’s call this either a lack of imagination or more positively … a pragmatic regard for life.

But I could argue that you SHOULD be thinking of far fetched ideas instead of “impossible” ideas because if you’re dreaming about unicorns and jet packs all day long, well, sure, you are gonna get fired or your kids will start believing you are officially nutso.

But.

The point (at least this one)

But still, I think that thinking of impossible things, and then scaling them back a little bit is a good way to think of some amazing ideas.

It’s kind of like imagining something then stripping away the undoable and identifying the “doable”.
Next point? (whew. I am getting tired of impossible points to make)

And I guess the difference here is kids just imagine. They dream. (and these are good things).

We adults should also imagine. And dream. But because we know more we should not leave these dreams & ideas in dreamland but rather seek out the real idea within.
So I guess what I’m saying is even thinking of utterly impossible things can lead to possible ones.

So.

If possible think some impossible thoughts. It’s quite possible that you may have a possible idea despite aiming for something impossible.

Whew.

Okay.

Just think. Thinking is good.