Today’s quote: “It’s always impossible until it’s done.”

-A quote on the wall of an office building somewhere.

Does today’s quote actually make any sense? It’s confusing as all get-out. Just like the phrasal verb “get-out.” Or is that a phrasal noun? 

Anyway.

You know when you pack a bag with a few changes of clothes and travel somewhere you used to call home and you stay there overnight and pull out a change of clothes the next day and you smell the scent of your home on your clothes as you’re standing in your former home and wonder “Is this what my home smells like now?” and then you wonder whether the scents of both homes are blended and how this creates a third scent altogether? 

There should be a word for this. For the smell of clothes that you packed from home when you’re in another place you once called home and get used to breathing in your old home’s smell and pull out a shirt after staying the night and breathe in your current home’s smell. We need words for things that are impossible to describe. 

If something’s impossible, then it’s not able to be done. The quote implies that you can do things that can’t be done. Understanding today’s quote is impossible. But maybe that’s the point. I understand it as much as it can be understood. So, have I done the impossible?

Speaking of riddles and brain teasers, sometimes it’s okay to give up. In my opinion, “It’s not that I’m giving up, I’m just not giving in.” In other words, I sometimes don’t wanna get consumed by trying to solve a riddle, so I don’t give in to the luring beckon of a puzzle’s solution yearning to be discovered.

Anyway.

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Brain teaser:

Each of the following words appears either in the middle of or at the end of the name of a country. For example, ACED is in Macedonia. What are the countries?

1. DIVE
2. DONE
3. GLAD
4. HAIL
5. HELL
6. LAYS
7. NAME
8. OVEN
9. RAIN
10. RUNE
11. SCAR
12. SWAN
13. TENS
14. WAND

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