I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

George Bernard Shaw wrote : “You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’.  When Robert F. Kennedy ran for president, the theme of his campaign was a paraphrase of Shaw’s line: “Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not.”

At the dawn of a new decade, I dream of wondrous, ridiculous and impossible things.  I have no idea if any of it will happen.  I am not certain of what I can do to make any of it happen.  But why not?  What was incredible yesterday I take for granted today.

So I’ll work, I’ll hope and I’ll dream.  May the world we build together be better than the world that we were given.

Why not?