A man once told me that the trick to pulling a truck with your tongue is not strength or power nor is it resistance to pain. It is not even having a combination steel-and-rubber tongue with attached tow hook, though this probably helps. The trick is merely having a fervent and irresistible desire to move the truck with your tongue. In other words, if you pull it, it will move.

The man was very drunk and subsequently fell off his bar stool in the train station I was waiting in so I wasn’t able to get him to elaborate any more on this intriguing concept but I think that this was supposed to be his metaphor for life; That anything is possible if you want it badly enough. Clearly the man had worked many long hours and put in much hard and dedicated work to achieve his lifelong goal of being incoherently drunk at 2:15 on a Tuesday afternoon so I guess he was the living proof of his theory. Continue reading →