No Longer a Choice

[Beautiful Future - XXIII]

We no longer have a choice between building a new world or choosing to perpetuate the old. The choice has been made for us, and we must engage. Fully. Passionately.

Engagement begins with imagining something different. But the “muscles” required for truly dreaming have atrophied under the daily burden of just showing up and getting by . . . and numbing ourselves from the pain.

And in our numb, overly exhausting routines, we rely on ideology, echo-chambers, and memes as a substitute for the hard work of using our imagination.

No shame here. I do it too.

But it must stop. It has to stop.

Who are the people that can dream of economies that don’t leave people out, governing bodies that are altruistic, and judicial systems that are not inherently racist?

Where are the leaders that can dream with their hearts and not their ideological commitments, their souls and conscience and not their political affiliation, their deepest longings and not their one-dimensional soundbites?

If it’s not us, friends, then who is it?

Now’s the time to imagine a beautiful future.