What a 1998 movie taught me about the impossible

Have you ever seen that movie What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams? There’s a line in it that stopped me cold the first time I heard it —

“What’s true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.”

Think about that for a second. Really think about it.

The entire premise of that movie is that the world you live in is built from what you believe. Your heaven, your hell — all of it is a construction of your own mind. And if that’s true in the afterlife, why wouldn’t it be true right here, right now?

Look at the history of humanity. Flight? Impossible — until it wasn’t. The moon? Unreachable — until we touched it. Talking to someone on the other side of the world in real time? Ridiculous — until you did it this morning without even thinking about it.

Every single thing we take for granted today was once somebody’s “that’ll never happen.”

So here’s what I know to be true.

The only thing standing between you and what you think is impossible... is the how. That’s it. Not your talent, not your background, not your circumstances. Just the how. And the how is always figure-out-able — if you actually believe it is.

Because the movie also says this — and this one hit different — “The real hell is your life gone wrong.” Not fire. Not brimstone. Just you, never finding out what you were actually capable of. That’s the hell most people are living in and don’t even realize it.

Don’t let that be you.

Stop asking if. Start asking how. The moment you make that switch, everything opens up.

Believe that. Then go prove it.

My Sunday morning 'pep talk’, is now over! ;)

Your Partner in the Quest for
Living a Life Without Limits,

Barry “Bear” Goss
Telegram: t.me/Bear_Mint

P.S. And then there’s Robin Williams.

Look at that photo from the movie. Really look at it. The man is standing inside a painting — literally covered in color, arms wide open, laughing with everything he’s got. Pure joy. Pure light.

And yet.

The same man who played a character searching through hell to save the love of his life... couldn’t find his way out of his own.

That’s the part that wrecks me every time I think about it.

Because here’s the truth nobody wants to say out loud — As I mentioned in The Pleasure Trap bulletin, irrespective of wealth, status, or pedigree, everybody is going through something dark. There’s a shadow side to each one of us. The guy laughing the loudest in the room. The one who seems to have it all figured out. The genius. The legend. The one you look up to.

All of them. Every single one.

Robin Williams, on-screen and off, made the whole world believe that nothing was impossible — that you could fly, that you could find heaven, that love was worth any sacrifice. And maybe that was both his gift and his burden. Because sometimes the people carrying the most light for others... are fumbling around in the dark when nobody’s watching.

So take this with you this week. Check on your people. Not the ones who are obviously struggling — check on the ones who seem fine. The funny ones. The strong ones. The ones who always show up for everybody else.

Ask them how they’re really doing. Then shut up and listen.

We figure out the impossible together. Not alone.

R.I.P. Robin. You were one of a kind. 🙏

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know absolutely nothing about.
Be kind always.” - Robin Williams