Growing up, we all loved to hear wild and lovely stories about things that couldn’t possibly happen in real life. Such fiction sparked our young minds and inspired a desire to be enveloped in boundless, albeit fictitious, possibility. Unfortunately, many of the same tales that promised us the impossible also set us up for certain failure because, well, life isn’t a fairytale. Unfortunately, I figured this out at a very young age when I bound my legs in a green towel and jumped in the pool in…
