Against The Odds

"I can't believe that!" said Alice.

"Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath and shut your eyes."

Alice laughed. "There's not use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things.

"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast..."

- Through The Looking Glass

One of my favourite books in the world, full of so many quotes that can be taken as good advice. I've realised that always looking at things as they are and most likely will be makes for a pretty uneventful life. There are never any surprises. You're left without that exciting anticipation of things that could be. Not necessarily impossible, but things that might be against the odds. Those impossible things are the secrets we keep, the things that we hope for despite people saying that they won't happen; these impossible things are the things that our dreams are made of.