Life-ing can be a lot. There are many things in this ever-overwhelming existence that feel utterly impossible – like paying off your student loan or, you know, eating just one custard doughnut from a fresh five-pack.
It even feels like ‘the impossible’ defines life for younger generations. We're perpetually told the economy is dire, the housing market is fucked, that basically all avenues of stability are edging further away. But a longer slog should not be mistaken for hopelessness, and we've tapped some top creative minds to remind you of that. Reader, we introduce life's most notoriously (im)possible acts: remember, you've got to spin to win.
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO… MEET SOMEONE IRL
Ah, the modern fairytale beginning: meeting someone outside the confines of The Apps. It might seem like a total fantasy at this point, but it can happen with a few simple tweaks to your routine – and I don't mean join a pottery club.
London-based finance manager Ellie*, 28, found her boyfriend this year by simply going on a lot of walks. (No, he wasn't lost.) “For about six months I would cross paths with this guy once or twice a week, and it got to the point where we'd nod in acknowledgement,” she says. “It turns out we obsessively pace around our local area, and we eventually got chatting in a coffee shop.” Long story short, he ended up asking her on a date (after she'd asked him first and he'd declined because he was seeing someone – important for later), and they've been in each other's pockets ever since.
“He later told me he'd been worried about messaging because he didn't know how old I was,” laughs Ellie, which leads us onto a big point in the hetero dating stakes. “I think most good men – men you'd actually want to go out
