Your Visions Matter

You're going to be seeing a lot more content from me about the importance of visions.

I believe this is one of the MOST important things we can be doing right now. Dreaming the big dreams for the world on the other side of our revolution.

And I want to say this about the visions, as well. Visions are not once-and-done and they're not a singular thing that one person owns.

We all have our personal visions. We have visions for our communities. We have visions for the world.

And there are big visions and smaller visions and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM MATTERS.

While someone like me paints a picture of everything the world could be - healthcare, education, All Our Relations, diversity, etc...

Others are painting pictures of fractal segments. Someone is painting pictures of what education could be. Of what parenting could be. Of what elderly care could be.

And within each category of vision, there are visions of aspects of that.

These visions are like raindrops in a puddle, radiating out and touching each other.

And we need all of them to turn the puddle into a lake.

The big vision helps us see what we're fighting for on a large scale. The more granular visions help us see what it looks like at each level and in each aspect of life.

Without the granular visions, the big vision is just clouds in the sky. Without the big vision, the more granular visions are just disparate raindrops with no cohesion. We need all of them.

The visions that aren't exactly the same as each other matter too! Because this isn't your dream or my dream or their dream, it's OUR dream. And diversity is PART OF THE DREAM. So don't worry too much if your vision doesn't match someone else's exactly. There's room for all of us.

And if there's not some differences, then we're not working for a dream, we're working for control. And that's not it.

So remember that. Remember that your dreams matter. If your area of expertise is city sanitation, imagine what sanitation COULD be like in a better world. Imagine your life, imagine the life of other sanitation workers, imagine the technologies, imagine the mental frameworks and the structures that could make sanitation better, more environmentally friendly, more sustaining of life and diversity.

If your work is raising children, imagine every aspect of that in an ideal world. If your work is litigating civil law, imagine every aspect of how civil law could serve the people better.

You see what I mean?

We need every level and every aspect, every facet covered.

Don't you dare think your part doesn't matter. Bring it. Bring your gifts. Bring your vision. We need you.