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Martin Luther King had a dream. So do I. And so
do you. We know what King did with his. What are you doing with ours?
Dreaming is not just the thing that separates us from the paramecium. It's our primary
survival mechanism. The ability to imagine the impossible, and then go after it—that's
what this life is all about.
to make the image of an antelope appear on the wall of a cave
to gather the legends of a land beyond and sail over the horizon to reach it
to call for and work for a government by the people...
to wonder what makes a bird capable of flight and build the machine that will do it
to theorize on the basic building blocks of all matter, and then find them
to put an apple on display, let it decay, and call it art
to dare dream that "one day a little black child..."
Dreams are the only things that have a chance of making our
imperfect world a little better. Of course there have been some bad dreams, a few real
nightmares. All the more reason for you to realize your dream.
If you're not realizing your deepest dream, I'd like to suggest that the next time you
think of Martin Luther King, you tell somebody your dream. That will make it easier to
tell someone else. And that will put you one step closer to making it come true. |
