Possibility Does Not Deny Circumstance
Possibility becomes unbelievable when it is used to argue with facts. The budget is limited. A relationship has ended. A diagnosis has been made. A deadline has passed. A law exists.
A circumstance can constrain what is possible. The distinction is that circumstance does not always exhaust the field of action. Possibility asks what can still be created, attempted, spoken, learned, requested, repaired, or reorganized from inside the conditions that are present. It does not require calling the constraint imaginary.
This keeps possibility from turning into positive thinking. The circumstance deserves accuracy. Possibility deserves inquiry. Sometimes the honest answer is that options are narrow. Sometimes an assumption has made them narrower than the facts require.
The point is to discover the difference. Possibility does not deny circumstance. It asks whether circumstance has already been allowed to decide more than it actually decides.