I won’t stop dreaming. It wrecks me, and I get upset at dinners and deep conversations with loved ones and strangers alike, but I won’t stop. I won’t stop hoping, on insisting, for a better world. Because it’s in our grasp. It’s in our power, it’s within our ability. We only need to reject the status quo as normal, as okay, as satisfactory. It is not. There is always better on the horizon. It takes thought and effort and even suffering. What of it? Are those not inevitable through the course of life? Is not striving towards something greater than one’s self the greatest endeavor one can experience? Challenge me. We have work to do. Will you get your hands dirty? Will you pitch in? If not, watch the rest of us take up your slack without judgement or complaint. Watch us sculpt the future through principle and earnest, with or without you. When you take up the space next to us, you will experience the better future. We can change the world.