When does the impossible become possible?

Recently I went to a concert. It wasn’t a typical concert, because it was a Sufjan Stevens Concert. He had a few quotes that really stuck out to me, and his concert is one of the only ones I’ve been to where you get an mini scholarly lecture about his music halfway through.

He started off the concert explaining his music and before starting his second song saying,

“The heart is the strongest muscle in the body. We’ve been through so much throughout history and yet it just keeps on beating.”

The rest of the concert followed this tone. Focus on the heart, focus on the struggles, the troubles the terrible parts that just don’t seem like their going to end. He ended the concert with a song called impossible soul, which is a 25 minute intense exposition of that idea of how sometimes life isn’t fair in love. Seeing the song in concert showed me what Sufjan truly meant when he wrote the song.

The night ended and it felt oddly uneventful even though my mind had been musically blown. His music as beautiful as it was had me thinking (as well as a few thoughts from my friend Liz) when does the impossible become possible. Does it ever?

I think that nothing is impossible, but some things may seem impossible. Our hearts ARE the strongest muscle in our bodies. We just keep on ticking, walking on, because we are strong. We can do amazing things. They are not just futile devices, they give us life. The heart has one major job, to keep going, to stay constant and to stay consistent.

So, if all I need to make the impossible possible, is to keep living; then I have no excuse.

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Only thing I can do is follow the idea of what Sufjan sings in his song Age of Adz:

When I die, when I die. I’ll rot. But when I live, when I live. I’ll give it all I’ve got …