Someone used this word in a statement to me recently. I’ve decided I hate this word. It shouldn’t even exist in any dictionary. I don’t believe in this word.
Something that is too difficult or too great to overcome. Not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with. Impossible of being conquered or vanquished or overcome
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Such a depressing word.
I’m crossing it out and tearing it out of my own personal dictionaries.
This word offends me. Because it was used towards me directly. Apparently I am an impossibility. I am unconquerable. I am too great to overcome. Add that up: I’m not worth the time and risk.
That stings.
I am an impossibility. I am unconquerable. I am too great to overcome. Add that all up: I’m not worth the time and risk.
I have always believed in all possibilities when it comes to matters of the heart. I’ve always believed that with GOD, anything is possible.
I am an insufferable “Can Do” kind of gal.
Insurmountable is directly the opposite of everything I believe and stand up for.
And I guess if I really dig in on this…the person who used this, has decided THEY don’t have the want or desire to take the time to even TRY to conquer. Try to overcome. That apparently there are things they can’t manage or attempt to overcome.
How can a person even make this statement about a situation, or an event, or about ME, when they haven’t even made the time, haven’t even actually TRIED?
The nerve. That seems to me to be more the definition of a COMPLETE ASS.
American’s beat the British to win the American Revolutionary War. The odds of the war seemed insurmountable. Yet they won. Without trying, they would have never known otherwise. And I would be part of England today.
The Berlin Wall. The last standing form of legacy of The Cold War. The last standing ideology of Communism. No one ever believed it would come down. Especially not East and West Berlin. But it did. It came down famously and communism in Germany went down with it.
We put a man on the moon in 1969. No one around the world thought it was possible. No one imagined it could be done. And yet, today we have sent more, (13 have been to the moon) and over 135 missions into space through NASA. Now we are looking at regular folks taking flights into the outer realms of our atmosphere and experiencing space travel. At one point, everyone thought the exploration of space was impossible. Unconquerable. Yet here we are.
Two weeks ago, a young colt named Rich Strike, entered into the Kentucky Derby after a last minute scratch by another entrant. The odds were 80-1 for this horse to be considered a contender, let alone the winner. But two minutes and eight seconds later, Rich Strike had managed to pull up from near last position and outrun the best of them to win that Derby Race in spectacular fashion. Insurmountable? Not to that horse. Not to that jockey. Not to the owner and trainer. They saw the opportunity. They took the time. They made the attempt. And it was an incredible ride.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Kin Hubbard
I am still looking for that incredible ride. And keeping a look out for those that see me as something worth taking the time for. That defies the odds of this aging gal, and proves that the word Insurmountable doesn’t exist in my dictionary, nor does it reside in their own.
I refuse to settle for less.
And they have to do their part in showing me they are willing to to see what happens, see where life takes them, and that they want me in the hopper seat along with them. That the walls are worth taking down; the race is worth running; the battle to defy everything when everything says otherwise, is worth every scar, as long as we are doing it together.
Insurmountable? Nothing is ever insurmountable, when there is a purpose of the heart.
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