This text analyzes the concept of "possibility" and the contradictions surrounding its use in both everyday and professional contexts. The author critiques the prevalent pan-causal mindset, which reduces possibility to a future necessity dictated by past causes, thereby obscuring true contingency. The essay challenges the assumption that the past determines the future, proposing instead that the foundation of reality lies in "responding" rather than causal impact. Two types of responding are identified: reacting to existing entities and given situations, and responding to non-objectifiable challenges. It is the latter that opens up specific situations and creates new possibilities that are not rooted in or derived from past states. By shifting the focus from causality to the capacity to respond to non-objectifiable appeals, the author argues for a primary understanding of contingency. Real possibilities do not emerge from external coincidences or pre-determined causal chains, but from a fundamental openness that allows for the emergence of the radically new, independent of historical necessity.