Possibilities

Just One Thing I Love About The Web

Garth Beyer

Endless Staircase, Fear

Anything is possible.

From backpacking in an inhabited (by humans) jungle for two weeks to breaking a world record, we can find blogs and YouTube videos to prove they’re possible. Didn’t think a certain web design or mouse contraption could be developed? The Internet tells us otherwise.

It’s a brilliant, but scary thing.

While it shows us the endless possibilities of anything and everything, it also pulls the curtain from which we so often hide behind.

We can’t use “it’s never been done” as an excuse anymore. In fact, we can’t really believe in impossible anymore either. As cliché as it is, the web is proving that if you can imagine it, you can make it happen. Scarily, it reminds us that if we don’t make it happen, someone will.

The world and the web is a scary place. I guess that’s what I love about it.

 

Stay Positive & Run At Fear, Not Away

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The Possibilities

Garth Beyer

People live, not in their concept of what is true, but of what is possible. Repeating: of what they think, see, and feel is possible.

This is what makes it damn difficult to encourage people and communicate to them their potential. Not only that, but it interferes with all forms of learning and communication. For example, one reason for the change in what is reported in the newspaper industry is the inability for people to associate so closely with facts.

We now base our knowledge sources by their relatability, their story, and their entertainment. Is this wrong? No, but we need to acknowledge the altercations it presents. We are growing up with a worldview of what is possible, not what is true or proven.  We may now believe what is false, is still possible. A sure sign of this complexity is your current inability to follow it. For that reason, let me simplify it the best I can.

There is a saying that once you have eliminated all possibilities, all you have left is the truth. The thing is, we now have an infinite number of possibilities

It’s a lot to live up to and understand. But in order to build a connection with someone, you have to understand what they believe to be possible, not true.

In longsight, as Mark Twain famously stated, “Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.”

 

Stay Positive & Fiction? Possibilities? Truth? What’s The Difference, Really?

Garth E. Beyer

Poetry Night 011

Garth Beyer

Yet the World Still Moves On

 

Soaring to the outskirts of the demands being made,

In this world by suffocating gentlemen shaking hands but not getting paid.

The relevance of what lies below makes no sense to them,

As if any transcendence to the most fathomable possibilities were slow,

And the camera can take snapshot after snapshot on the go.

Still the blank canvas creeps to such an alternative degree.

That even if the light above your head flashed, you still could not see.

The depravities of the self-less inner case,

Cannot be transferred unless a whole is cut through the base,

The prescribed perception only lies.

And some people dance and some people die.

 

–          Everett

 

Stay Positive and Personify

Garth E. Beyer