What would you do today if you could not fail?

I have a question for you.

“What would you do today if you could not fail”?

It’s thought provoking. How would you answer it?

I immediately thought about bringing peace to the world but how would I prevent consequential over-population and more global warming. More education, contraception and redistribution of resources? How can this be achieved in a day! I thought about violence and inequality. How I wish I could tell Americans that they “don’t” have the right to bear arms or invade other countries but they’d probably just shoot me. I thought about cutting excessive executive salaries through a tax that funds hospitals and schools. Or inventing a mind altering drug to stop abuse and discrimination but how would I administer it.

I thought about the little things that irk me like four wheel drives and Barbie dolls. How I wish I could ban four wheel drives from the city. The downside – stopping people’s freedom to make “wrong” choices. Barbie – Huh – how to make a girl feel inadequate – all those curves and successful careers not to mention Ken, the model boyfriend. How I yearn to design Feral Barbie – a doll with a normal body shape and imperfections but boy can that doll party!

Or maybe I could travel through time and undo all my mistakes. But those mistakes are what make me who I am today.

Then I remembered watching a Down syndrome girl in the middle of the shopping mall dancing and singing with no inhibitions and I decided on my final answer. I would love knowing it would be accepted and multiplied. I would speak out with no fear of negative repercussions. I would compose a song that sends shivers down everyone spine and makes them feel happy. I would write words of inspiration and hope and I would smile and laugh. And tomorrow I would do all these things knowing that failure is not an option as I am never a failure as long as I try.

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Photo Provided By Amanda Makrides from Talk Like A Physicist

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