May I submit, for your appraisal, a word that I think should be at the top of the list of "Words That Should Be Removed From The English Language In The Name Of General Happiness"
The word I'd like to submit is 'no'
Perhaps it is because I am an optimist, or maybe it is because of some other wiring I've picked up... but I'd like to submit that, and not just me, most people are acutely aware of the things they cannot do. I am incredibly aware, at this moment, of the multitudinous collection of shit that can't be done. For example, I can't make it a weekend. I can't see any of my extended family tonight. I can't be elected president this year. I can't forget things, I can't remember things, I can't stop things, I can't do things. I cannot live my life being defined by things I cannot do, and even more critically I absolutely cannot sit idly by when someone wants to add to the list of things I cannot do.
So I propose we throw out the word 'no.' Because 'no' is final and has no conditions. 'Only,' 'Maybe,' 'Potentially,' and 'If.' These are words that have open doors. These are words that have hope and show a path... they are also words to live by. These are words that can make dreams come true. To say that you can't win the lottery is ludicrous, because the potentiality is irrefutable. It is only highly improbable that you win, because you win "only if" your number is called out of millions. Even if it was not foreseeably possible that you could win... or that it is not foreseeably possible that I own a house on Mars before I die. It is still potentially possible, however outside that chance may be.
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