Beyond Us
Simple question: Can a dream ever really be too big? We're often told to be realistic, t o know our limitations. "B e practical. Lo ok at what we have and make the best of it!" There's wisdom in knowing what we can actually accomplish. There's wisdom in being honest about our resources and our limitations. But have we gotten so used to asking what is realistic that we' ve forgotten how to ask what could be possible? What is worth dreaming about even if we will not be the ones who see it come to pass? I mportant dreams in human history have always been bigger than the people who dreamed them. D reams that take decades, generations. D reams that begin as nothing more than a whisper in someone's mind who has almost no reason at all to believe they will ever see it happen. And yet they believe. They carry it and protect it, and they pass it on. Imagine being enslaved in the United States in 1855. Imagine living in a world that had built an entire legal, ...