People Wrestle Alligators

If there was one motto hammered into my head growing up it was “you can do and be anything you want.”

My mother presented and believed in this concept as the literal truth. She taught not only that I could find a job doing anything I wanted but that if I really truly wanted to become a frog robot I could find a way to make that happen.  Maybe I would first have to develop frog robot technology and then create a way to implant my thoughts and personality into the frog robot. Or maybe I would have to reshape what it meant to be a frog robot into a realistic possibility. But if I really wanted to be a frog robot that shit could come true.

This is a silly idea. Can someone really be anything they want? I’m still not convinced it’s possible. Even just the I want to be a doctor I can be a doctor kind of way. Some people can’t do some things no matter how much they want to do them. What really happens is they change their wants to fit the possibilities in front of them or they live a life of disappointment.

Is that pessimistic?

This is mostly how I think and then I remember that there are people who wrestle alligators. Someone once decided they wanted to wrestle an alligator, enjoyed and then decided, “hey, I’d like to make a living doing this,” and they got that shit done. That really weighs in favor of the possibility of possibilities.

I could probably become a professional alligator wrestler if I really wanted to so I can probably became a professional whatever I want to be. But that doesn’t sound very pessimistic so I have to think about it some more.

Love

Levi