Seeing and Hearing

I am young. I am naive. It is true. I know that I am. I want to change the world. I want to start a revolution. I want to see things shifted. Is my head is just full of far fetched, unrealistic, idealistic ideas? I know that there have been people who choice to take a stand and change the world. I know that there have been people who decided to look like fools, sound like fools, and were treated like fools for a vision, for something they truly believed in. And I am sure there have been even more people who, when they were young, wanted to change the world. But they grew up, the world got to them–something got to them–and they mellowed out. They got to a point at must have put their hands up and said, “I guess I was young kid with fanciful ideas . . . that didn’t line up with how the world worked.”

I know that in some respects I look at the world and say, “but no, this is how it should be–and it can be like this.” I know that I have these wild dreams of change that . . . that even I look at and say “Lucas, you are young . . . you don’t know anything yet. You are so green, so wet behind the ears. There are hundreds and thousands who grew up, looked back, and thought boy I thought I was something–I didn’t know a damn thing. Lucas, imagine what people say behind your back–yeah he has passion . . . it’s good. But he is young. He’ll grow up and simmer down . . . he will one day see how things really are . . . when he is older. Lucas, who are you gonna be? Are you going to look back and say, boy I was young. Lucas you could always just shut your mouth and live for another decade or two, and then speak up when you actually know what this life is really about.”

Yeah people I know. I see myself. But what about Ghandi? Martin Luther? Martin Luther King. jr.? Or John Milton? Wilberforce?

One day I may look back and say what I’m saying today–”Okay Lucas you didn’t know how the world worked,” or I could say, “Yeah I learned along the way but because of sticking to my silly ideas I changed history.”

I think both are better than saying–”I wonder what could have been . . .”