Impossible possibilities

# Chapter 139

I am looking for the impossible. I need the impossible. As Authur C Clark said, you have to go beyond the possible to find the impossible. For me at my age, it means trying things that no sane nearly 60 year old grandpa would try. The first impossible that I need is fitness. I want to be more fit than ever before in my life, because the quality of every moment is so much richer and better when fit. The vast majority of men (and women) my age, find fitness to be the very last thing they are thinking about. They are thinking about retirement and pensions and 401k returns. Trust me I am thinking about those things too, but far more intensely then they are, because I realize that the third third of my life is beginning, and what I am going to do and how I am going to experience the next 30 years is very much up for grabs. Fitness is the most crucial piece of enjoying the next 30 years.

The second impossible that I need is a job. A task that produces income. This is impossible because of my age, and that I haven’t had one of these things called a job for the last 27 years. I had a ministry, but not a job. It covered the basics of housing and food for us, but not much else. I need a job now because I have a mortgage and real bills of the Western variety. Honestly I haven’t faced this one much in my adult life, but we are now, and how to finance the next 30 years is a real challenge. Who will hire a 58 year old former missionary pastor? Right. No one. This is no more and no less impossible than being fit at 60.

The impossible is just beyond the edge of possible.