Wishful+Reflection

The wishful dreamer is the most rare of all. It is one that stands not confidently, but passionately toward the future. The wishful dreamer is the American that searches for the most, no matter what the realities around them might challenge. Furthermore, the wishful dreamer knows what they want. While their enthusiasm is admirable, it is also dangerous. The visions wishful dreamers invest their lives in are sometimes so specific that reality cannot even begin to form a pathway that would allow for them to come true. Sometimes these visions are capable of existing only as hopes, never realities. Major Lazer conveys this concept as the Dirty Projectors sing, "I just wanna dream," and "what will I do without my dreams?" Gatsby presents us this idea as he has created his life only to match his dream. And Martin Luther King Jr., the most utilitarian dreamer, speaks to the wishful dreamer as he devoted his energy to creating a world where the wishful dreamer would not only thrive, but become a reality.

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