The blogging possible

In life we all have choice, we can believe it is possible to do anything we want or that it is possible to do as little as possible. This morning on the news a storm broke over something that we all thought was impossible. John Venables and another boy both aged ten, kidnapped, tortured and killed toddler Jamie Bulger. We all at the time asked, 'How is this possible, how could two young boys possibly comprehend evil?' This was wrangled over by the media and the CPU but most of all by the parents of the victim. When these two boys only served eight years and not a day of that inside a prison cell how can we possibly say that justice was served.

If this had been written as a story, would it have been published? Or banned because of how horrific the possibility of its comprehension. John Venables is now at last behind bars not in protective luxury of children's services, at last he is in the prison system. Do I believe in Evil? Yes I do having worked with criminals for over fifteen years I have met Evil and as they say looked it in the eye. What I think makes me saddest of all is that today 'Evil' in the criminal context is given the possibility of being a 'celebrity', they have cult followings.
As Kundera said we 'choose the uniform we wear'. We can also, if we chose change that uniform. The possibilities in life are endless, if we keep an open mind we will continue to evolve but close it and we have no one to blame but ourselves. My uniform has changed from Prison Officer to Creative Writing Student my next uniform is that of Author. Where will yours go?

I've just been to see the new 'Alice in Wonderland'. I saw the 3D version and it was great. At one point in the film Alice had to recite 'six impossible things' so that she could slay the Jabbererwocky. For me it made the connection that Kundera has been talking about. As children we think that nothing is impossible, as adults we have the ability and opportunities to make things possible but often make them impossible, because we've lost the ability to dream. This reminded me of a song called 'Dream the impossible dream.'
I've chosen this particular version as it has the lyrics which are very poetic and has Icarus and other images that I find moving.
On trying to find this song on You Tube and Google I found out the most amazing link that I honestly did not know. This song comes from the 1965 musical 'La Mancha'. The lyrics are by Moe Darien and the music by Mitch Leigh. This musical is about 'Don Quixote' and is sung as he stands vigil over his armour, in response to Alsonza's question about what he means by 'following the quest'. As writers is this not what Kundera and Calvino are telling us. Dream the impossible and become a writer as after all the IMPOSSIBLE can be anything we want it to be.