i imagine
September 14, 2008
I imagine this printed face on my shirt whispering “i hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one”
. John Lennon, he wrote and sang this at the time when i was not even a germ yet.
A colleague, a seasoned development worker, once told me that during the Marcos dictatorship, John Lennon song Imagine, was to some extent used by progressive organizations to move people, particularly the students, to take action against the oppressive regime. If i was alive at that time, i would probably take the song’s theme to the very core of my heart, make a stand, go with the rest of the believers, take action and leave all the things that i could not take with me…But this is just me, saying i would if and only if a was alive 30 years ago today.
Today, the song still being played on the radios. And as the music plays, i asked myself, would i do the same thing i think i would do if this was the 70s?
The dream lives on. I believe..I still believe…But i am not going to leave all the things that i could not take for i do not have a place go to. The forest is all gone now, the countryside is barren…Everything is all gone now…
Everything but you, me, and everyone else who remains to be mechanical animals.
I am still a dreamer, and i am not the only one…
