Extremely tired, need sleep. Woke up to the laughter of children, so innocent, full of joy, yet so wise to the ways of humans. Natalie (youngest niece) is a clever child knows how to get what she wants. At a very at very young age has mastered the art of persuasion. Makes me wonder if intelligence is inherited passed down from generation to generation, random effect with no causation, or developed through grueling work, most likely a combination.
The DREAM Act is consuming my life. Wake up first thought the dream, bored during the importance of ethics in engineering lecture. What must I do to make this DREAM of mine a reality? I have been advocating for the DREAM Act for about a year and half, yet I am exhausted. The movement is addicting; the highs when a new senator co-sponsors, the lows when you realize what they have said all along “you are a lonely pawn, replaceable, in a much larger game.”
True I am a pawn, but a pawn with an individualist mind. I am me, and only me. I am free to choose, free to decide the course of my life, though with limitation. One could say “I have limited freedom, nevertheless it is still liberty.” Then, again freedom as I know it is the ability to act, and to think without any physical or psychological impediment. Mental barriers are tougher to endure, for the mind controls all. The reality one lives is the image projected by the mind. Yet in the overall sense there is an ultimate reality, but to whom does this vision belong, can it be own? It is an entity, or a brute fact of nature, similar to gravity?
By my prognostics I am not completely free, in the land of the free. Hence, can anyone really be free? Free to express one’s sorrows, joys, anger, disappointments, disgusts, scorn, or will? As I understand the significance of the DREAM Act more, and more I have come to the realization, that no-one is truly free , in the physical sense. This is a birth right we surrender for our safety, but for metaphysical certitude, we must be free. Freedom must exist in one’s mind. If the mind controls all, then, we must be individuals, be unique, be free from oppression, hate, fear, free to love, free to loathe, free to dream.
All we have is our thoughts, our vision, our dreams of a world where one will listen, LISTEN with as much effort as one does to speak. A world were passion, liberty, and valor will be more than theoretical definitions written down by great thinkers, but actions. This is the spirit of the DREAM Act as I have perceived it. No one intended to be, no-one intended to create a movement, to begin the renaissance of the 21st generation. Like the civil rights movement and the Chicano movement of the 1950-1960’s, dream generation is compromised of undocumented youth, residents, citizens, men, gays, lesbian, Christian, Muslims, Asian, Latinos, but above all else we are human beings.
We are human beings, strong intelligent individuals with a vision of greatness, with skills and knowledge to achieve that vision. The vision of ending man’s dependence on fossil fuels, to end man’s hunger, a vision where morality will be the center of man’s mind, instead of power (money for our practical purposes). DREAM generation goes beyond the dream legislation, beyond the power old mighty dollar; it is an idea of hope.
Hope is what OBAMA promised. Hope is what he inspired, hope is was the center of the Obama political machine, hope moves worlds, hope allows us to believe in that the improbable is possible, hope is vital to man essence. Obama created an atmosphere of hope, a can do attitude, with purist simplicity that we were all too eager to believe unquestionably. Hope cannot be created merely by external factors (forces), it must have an internal seed, needing nutrients to flourish. As a result, hope cannot cease to exist, it merely hides under all the chaos, to be unleashed again. What Obama meant to the nation in 2008, the DREAM Act means to all of us who believe with a childlike euphoria in justice fairness, and above all else freedom.
