“If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it,
You can become it.”
-William Arthur Ward
William Arthur Ward’s quote should be a powerful call to action. Dreams have tremendous power. They sustain us through desperate times and drive us through difficult ones and give us hope for the future. More important-they inspire us!
Where would human beings be without dreams? Would we have explored distant places or invented the means to travel to those destinations? How many children are alive today thanks to the dreams of doctors and scientists? What works of art lift the hearts of countless masses due to the dreams of artists?
In the end so much is possible thanks to the power of dreams and yet so many people seem unwilling to free their own dreams. They shrug them off, ignore them, or reject them entirely-too difficult, impossible, ridiculous, meaningless.
But even the most frivolous dreams have meaning. If one person’s life is touched by that dream-whether they are inspired, changed, or simply lightened-then that dream has power and meaning.
It is sad that in our society to be...