I can do it? No way !

 The Contemporary Myth "I can do it"

1.  In the ancient Greek myth, there are lots of heroes like Heracles, Achilles, and Perseus who overcame difficulties with their own endeavours. On the other hand, there are also many stories like Icarus who died because he tried to fly higher like gods. Icarian stories tell us not to be hubristic but humble with satisfying with one’s position. I know that it may sound strange why I’m quoting the myth of heroes and Icarus. However, those are related to the topic " I can do it". Comparing with the opposite stories - overcoming hardship versus being restricted by impossibilities- most of people are truly enthusiastic for the former. A word" I can do it "signifies that people can also conquer obstacles like many heroes. Unfortunately, they don’t seriously care about a fact that the characteristics of the protagonists are basically different with that of us. Their origin was come from a relationship between mortals and immortals, that is, they could overcome all of difficulties because one of their parents was immortal. In this respect, we can never be heroes but Icarus. The narrative ,therefore, is only oblivion and distortion of the reality caused by fear.
2.            Then, what is the actual world which we’re afraid of facing it? It is the world where diverse social fences do really exist like sun in Icarian story. Well, let me give you two different examples. One is a boy whose family only earns less than 1 dollar a day and lives in a slum. His only hope in his daily struggling life might be rich for escaping from poverty chaining him or even a doctor for saving one’s lives threatened by deficient money. The other case is a boy whose family income is more than 10,000 dollars a day living in a wealthy village. His future plan will probably take a good qualified education and be rich like his parents. Comparing with those instances, who does have more possibilities to fulfill their hope? Whether the poor offspring is industrious or not, it doesn’t matter, but the problem is depending upon a width of possible chances. In the past, it was related to one’s rank. However, one’s property replaces the role of it in the capitalistic world. Though the former is smart, the probability of his success is bare because he can’t afford a lot of money needed to realise his dream. You may counter my opinion with several cases like Oprah Windfrey who had been born in a poor family and became one of the richest women in America. But you should recognise that it’s quite unique case hard to be normalised. In general, more opportunities mean more possibilities. That’s why I call a word " I can do it" a grand narrative because it perverts general situation by showing some extraordinary conditions. Social property such as parental economic influence and social networks etc is more influential than individual asset like diligence, intelligence and so on. Hence, what I really want to say today is that there are certain things beyond one’s ability.
3.            As I mentioned above, there’s no such solutions helpful to make us successful beyond our socially permitted borders. When our goal is harmonious with our social environment, a positive result will be deduced. On the contrary, when a dissonant situation happens, its realisation becomes dim. What should we do in those miserable phenomena? Via penetratingly acknowledgement what socially chains us, we should search practicable dreams within affordable circumstances. Whereof we cannot control, thereof we must forego