When Dreams Become Reality

I have a dream.  This is my dream, not one colored by another’s thoughts and actions.  Bringing together groups with commonality, even if not admitted for reasons of pride.  There are four capital letters that are mentioned in the same breath as if we are a monolithic community.  In some contexts a fifth letter is added.  For the uninitiated the discussion hovers around “LGBTQ”.

We are considered separate, factions, puzzle pieces.  If that’s the case, each letter representing a puzzle piece in life’s frame, why aren’t we interconnected and functioning as one unit?

We would have incredible influence and leverage.  It’s true each letter has achieved significant, if not previously considered impossible, milestones.  Recognition and tacit acceptance is the most visible.  Although we are viewed as five twenty-sixths of the alphabet we are not as cohesive as we could be. 

Convenience and smallmindedness paints us with the same brush although we are different, but not so different that we can’t unify - stand together.  Hear me clearly when I say our differences are what makes us wonderfully, incredibly, fantastically, ideally, the right combination of diversity to establish the path to enlightenment for the world.  Bearing the yoke would be easier if we bore it together.  All pulling in the same direction – commonality recognized, welcomed and admired.

I’m not professing one face, one way of acting – far from it.  That would be as silly as advocating for our flag to be one color.  Diversity is so much fun, so refreshing.  We can continue to learn from each other.  Capitalize o n successes in one area and parlay into incremental successes.

We could help each other in ways my feeble mind can only begin to imagine.  Maybe photobombing is the beginning.  Maybe this is a reach out – extending a hand of friendship.  Yes I know, we can annoy each other like abrasive spousal interaction.  But isn’t discovery, compromise and coalescing around a common cause worth the effort?

Think about it.  Let me know if you think my bra’s too tight.

Love and hugs, Nikki DiCaro