Dear Impossible Readers,
It is easy to blame our disappointments on big, disruptive events like pandemics, elections, or natural disasters. After all, they did fuck up our lives. But what they truly reveal is who we really are, both as individuals and collectively. They dismantle our routines, assumptions, and excuses. Pressure reveals the remnants of resilience, fear, courage, and doubt.
When the world collapses, some hands open, others form fists. Crisis cuts through the noise and lays instincts bare. Stress causes us to cling to our identities and beliefs. Lines turn to stone. Words lose their beat. Polarisation intensifies. Fear takes the stage. Freedom is taken hostage.
A crisis is a black hole moment, a point of no return. Once you pass the event horizon, everything is stripped away. The singularity reveals only the truth. Crisis does not create monsters. It frees them.
From the singularity,
Yours Possibly
Further Reading
Bailie, J., Reed, K., Matthews, V., Scott, K.M., Ahern, C. and Bailie, R., 2024. Volunteering as prosocial behaviour by medical students following a flooding disaster and impacts on their mental health: A mixed‐methods study. Medical Education, 58(4), pp.430-442.
Duan, H., Wang, X., Wang, Z., Xue, W., Kan, Y., Hu, W. and Zhang, F., 2019. Acute stress shapes creative cognition in trait anxiety. Frontiers in psychology, 10, p.1517.
Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T. and Solomon, S., 1986. The causes and consequences of a need for self-esteem: A terror management theory. In Public self and private self (pp. 189-212). New York, NY: Springer New York.
Landsman, K., 2021. Singularities, black holes, and cosmic censorship: A tribute to Roger Penrose. Foundations of Physics, 51(2), p.42.
Liébana Puado, S., Sanz-García, A., Fausor De Castro, R., García Vera, M.D.L.P. and Sanz Fernández, J., 2022. Dysfunctional Attitudes and Long-Term Posttraumatic Growth in Victims of Terrorist Attacks.
Manteli, M. and Galanakis, M., 2022. The new foundation of organizational psychology. Trait activation theory in the workplace: Literature review. Journal of Psychology Research, 12(1), pp.939-945.
O’Brien, K.E., Henson, J.A. and Voss, B.E., 2021. A trait-interactionist approach to understanding the role of stressors in the personality–CWB relationship. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 26(4), p.350.
Peña-Garay, M., Sandoval-Díaz, J. and Cuadra-Martínez, D., 2025. Social representations of formal volunteers and spontaneous volunteers in socio-natural disaster risk management contexts. Behavioral Sciences, 15(4), p.497.
Yang, Z., 2025. Understanding spontaneous volunteering in crisis: Towards a needs-based approach of explanation. The Social Science Journal, 62(1), pp.28-38.
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