No, I am not post­ing clips from Mar­tin Luther King’s speech on my blog today. This is not to say I don’t agree with him (on the con­trary!), but more that every­one and their uncle is post­ing that today.

I have some­thing more press­ing on my mind.

What are YOUR dreams?

Mine? I dream of a world where I know my future chil­dren will grow up safely. I hope that the work I do with non­prof­its will make a dif­fer­ence in my community. I dream of achiev­ing a level of writ­ing qual­ity where I can get snag an agent and get pub­lished. I hope that what I write will make at least one reader’s day a lit­tle brighter.

Some of these things are within my con­trol, oth­ers not so much. But I can still work towards all of them, even if it’s only in small ways. That is what makes the dif­fer­ence between reach­ing those goals and set­ting my dreams aside.

Go con­fi­dently in the direc­tion of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.

–Henry David Thoreau

Share your dreams and dis­cuss in the comments!