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A popular English proverb says: "Where there is a will there is a way".

Spontaneously it seems to me that life is more complicated, and this proverb is not always true.

Therefore it is interesting to weigh up the arguments in favour of this position and against it.

It seems to me that the majority of people hearing this proverb would agree with it without any doubt.

Indeed, life supplies us with a number of arguments in favour of this statement.

Firstly, almost everything one wants is something he has already seen over the course of his life, so it is theoretically possible.

If somebody has already achieved it, you can do the same.

Secondly, one can often use the phrase "it is impossible" just as an insincere excuse, because in fact he does not really want to do enough to achieve his goal.

Sometimes one is not ready to spend enough time, efforts or money, or to take risks.

In that case the proverb is a good motivator which blames a hesitant person.

Indeed, the statement claiming "if you want something badly enough, you can find the means to get it" is so positive, that one wants to rely on it.

However, it is not all that simple.

First of all, I would like to say that not every wish is feasible.

You cannot become a real bear or be born in the 14th century even if it is the dream of your heart.

It is not possible that everybody who wants to become a president will succeed in it simultaneously.

Objective achievement is often closely connected with fortune.

The one who won a lottery is not the one who had wanted it most.

Besides, the proverb urges us to judge other people, their lives, motivation, efforts and achievements.

Armed with this proverb we obtain the freedom to disdain a person, to say that he hasn't succeeded, hasn't attained his goal, without thinking that he is probably on his way to it.

As I see it personally, the author of the proverb had pretensions to have absolute and comprehensive knowledge of psychology, to know the answer for every question, to know everything about everyone, to be a clairvoyant, that, of course, cannot be true, taking into consideration the fact that he was an ordinary thinker from times past.

I also strongly believe that the fact that the proverb implicates the word "always" makes it even more categorical.

Taking everything into account, I'd like to say that although this proverb is too categorical and cannot be applied to every situation, it is a good motivator that may help one to achieve something considered to be impossible for now.