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For The Dreamers

Dreamers imagine what life could be, the possibilities in every cloud and every person.

They look beyond: beyond what is.

They try their hardest to bring dreams into being.

There is nothing idealistic about being a dreamer.

Idealism is different-idealism is wanting your ideals to shape the world, to mould the world into a certain paradigm.

What does it mean, to have a dream?

Martin Luther King had a dream.

He dreamt that the world could be a better, peaceful, more loving place, for people of colour and the rest of the world.

He dreamt that there would be no more war, no more violence.

He dreamt of more joy and friendship.

Of change that could achieve true equality and liberation from the conditions of society that divide and oppress.

And what did John Lennon and Yoko Ono believe?

That it was possible to imagine a world, too, that had no war and hate, full of love.

We need those dreamers.

The ones that, in times of fear and anxiety, show us that hope remains.

That even in the darkness of death and violence, life can still be beautiful, and full of joy.

Choosing optimism, choosing to focus on gratitude, yet seeing what can be better, and imagining how it could be, is the way forward.

Cynicism is the bitterness of giving up, believing that we have no power.

We have power: we just need to know in what ways- because we all have a different kind of power within us.

We can