Monday was Martin Luther King Day in America, which always makes me think about his famous 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech. In that speech, King said he dreamed of a land of slavery and hatred becoming a place of freedom and and equality.
Today, we're a lot closer to Dr. King's dream than we were 50 years ago. We still have a ways to go, but America is a very different place because Dr. King and others believed in the same dream, and worked to make it happen.
What are your dreams for the future? What do you want to do? Where do you want to go? Lots of people have dreams, but your dreams will never come true if you don't work for them. Dr. King and his friends knew that, and they worked very hard to convince the rest of the country that their dream was the right one.
Is your dream to become a writer? Mine was. But that dream wasn't going to come true just by wishing for it. I had to practice writing. I had to finish stories and books. I had to rewrite them to make them better. I had to send those stories out to editors. Then I had to keep sending them out again and again until I finally got a yes. Only then did my dream of being a published writer come true.
Dreams take work. What are you going to do today to make your dreams come true?
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