An Impossible Situation is a situation in which nothing the other party can do will be satisfactory to your desire.
A friend of mine sings alot, lets call him Adam. He sings in front of all of us, just nonchalantly, obviously expecting a comment of some kind. He's not bad at singing per se, and he has gotten better recently, but he is still a fair distance from random compliments. We have yet to comment on his singing at all.
Yet he continues, hoping for us to say... what exactly?
Obviously, telling the truth and saying he isn't as good as he apparently thinks he is isn't what he wants us to do.
Yet, if we compliment his singing, what then? What will he do? No compliment we can say will be what he wants, and even assuming it is, what happens next?
Does he continue singing for hopes of more compliments? No, that would be selfish etc.
Does he then stop singing after we complimented him? Perhaps, but then he might hold negative feelings thinking we expect him to sing.
Even if he does think we expect him to sing, that makes singing a chore, because it is for us now, instead of just himself.
In short, it becomes an awkward situation no matter what happens.
Nothing we can do can make this situation work. It's impossible. Therefore, Impossible Situation.
tl;dr dont expect people to do something if you dont know what you want them to do. honestly.
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