5,000 Days (aka “Believing the Impossible”)
Filed Under (family, personal, spiritual) by theimpossiblek on 15-05-2009
Kinda funny how things blend into each other.
I met my dad for lunch today, and we got to talking about the future of computers. I tried my best to explain this cool video I saw on Ted.com, about cloud computing, and how these future predictions could dramatically change our lives. So here I am, just got home from work, searching for that video… I didn’t find it. But I found another video on Ted.com that was really interesting.
The web was only 5,000 days old when this video was recorded. It’s probably closer to 6,000 days old now. But it’s like I mentioned to my dad- if you traveled back in time a few decades, would you ever imagine technology could evolve in this way? Go back less than a lifetime, and “the web” was nothing more than a spider’s home. And now- well, I can’t imagine life without it. Heck, I wouldn’t have a job without it.
I’m nearly 10,000 days old now. (Technically, 9845). If I went back 5,000 or even 500 days earlier, I would NEVER have imagined being where I am now. Engaged? Me?! And working at a job I actually love? In the most beautiful city in America? Impossible. I’d laugh if you even bothered to suggest the possibility.
I’m often reminded of a story given by Sheri Dew. In this story, her friend was looking for a house and asked her to come help. They found a house that seemed like the best for the standards that she had chosen, so she asked Sister Dew to pray and ask the Lord if it was the right house. Sister Dew went on to pray and she said in her prayer, “…Let them get this house if it suits Thee, or help them find something better…”
I think, too often, I limit myself- I don’t believe I can really achieve the happiness and blessings that are in store. Impossible, I say, and don’t even bother harboring hope in something better. I’m grateful that God’s stubborn enough to bless me anyway. To give me the fiance and job and home that really brings me more joy than I could ever dream of- that I even bothered to hope for- and continues to surprise me every day.
I have a tendency to try and plan out my future, but that never works. So really, I can’t say how things will turn out in the next 5,000 days. All I know is I can’t discount the impossible.
(P.S. - Here’s a link to the video I was talking about:)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html

