D-R-E-A-M

all of the sudden, the spelling and its definition(s) seem so remote.

"I have a dream..."
(I came across an article about Tun Dr. Mahathir's conviction that in our country, "race-based politics would stay..", and how Obama appeals across all sorts of frontiers and delineation, although there is no connection, i suddenly inclined to listen again to that historical speech...)
...Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ..

I have a dream today!
...And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
- Martin Luther King, "I have a Dream", delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C

It was an inspiration.
But from where & when I am - a faraway one.The generation-Y-ers around my circle appears to had given up(!) on our "tanah air"...
It doesn't look like we (again, the majority within small crowd I know) dream for the country,
we dream individualistically - our success, our safety, our life...(life, liberty and the pursuit for happiness)
dreams for ourselves on our own...
(ok. I Really don't wana go into this right now =Zip!)

I have a dream, a song to sing
To help me cope with anything
If you see the wonder of a fairy tale
You can take the future even if you fail
I believe in angels - Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels - When I know the time is right for me
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream;
I have a dream, a fantasy
To help me through reality...
And my destination makes it worth the while
Pushing through the darkness still another mile

I'll cross the stream - I have a dream
- Westlife, "I have a Dream", 1999 (originally by ABBA, 1979)

deja-vu?

Mine is simple:" I have a dream...that I realize all my dreams."

Which had been bugging me for a while (..though I was too preoccupied to meander in this these days) - from where I am standing now, some seem out-of-the-way, whilst some seem so close but still untouchable, and collectively it seem hazed...
"So much to do, so little time." - Familiar?
yesterday, it seems there are so much I pine for to the point that
I don't know what it is anymore...
but I realized today -
all of the sudden - that I should take it one step at a time.