40 Years and Counting…

This evening I shared space, air, food, drink, and a dream with a couple of people I’d never met.  A dream they had over 40 years ago still lives today.  I know because I am a benefactor of that dream.  I know because I am living their dream.

Over 40 years ago, 7 families dreamed about opening a school in order to provide a different kind of education for their children.  It was a crazy, crazy dream.  They went for it anyway.  They went for it, and they made it happen.  Their did what they had to in order to translate dream into reality.  And they were successful.  Today, my kids attend that school.  Tonight, we celebrated the organic evolution of that dream as the school opened a second building on campus.  

“Tonight, I can see that the torch has been passed,” she said.  She was a member of one of those 7 founding families.  There were others present from that original group.  What a legacy.  Imagine being able to pass a torch over 40 years from now.  Just imagine.

The difference between those 7 families and the majority of us is that they had the courage to do more than just imagine.  They had the courage to pursue that crazy dream.  How many times have you dreamed an impossible dream only to brush it off?  Impossible dreams are just that: impossible.  They are flights of fancy.  They are childish.  They are irresponsible.  They are pointless.  Impossible dreams…why bother?

Bother…because 40 years from now hundreds of kids could benefit from your dream.  Hundreds of lives could be changed for the better.  Changed?  How about transformed?  How about elevated beyond what they could have only dreamed of prior to you and your dream?  Or maybe the mere fact that you had the courage to try might be enough to inspire another generation of dreamers…

Now, go.  Start.  Light that torch.   It’s not too late.  I don’t care how old you are.  40 years from now, something you ignited could be burning brightly…