“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today, I still have a dream.” (Martin Luther King – 1929-1968)
I didn’t realize until I was looking up the dates that defined MLK’s life that he was only 39 years old when he died. That got me thinking back to when I was 39. How about you – what were your dreams when you were 39 and do you now have new dreams for your future? And if you are approaching 39, in what do you hope, what is your dream?
Perhaps we can’t agree on the origin or value of hope, but even the most jaded members of humankind dream. We dream because we wish to possess, capture or covet some outcome – success, happiness, riches, admiration, love, power, just to suggest a few. Dreams release us for a time from the reality in which we find ourselves.