I dream of a world where quality education can be afforded by not only the high and mighty but by all and sundry, where government participation makes basic education another fundamental human right. Where public and private universities can compete favourably in standard, quality of research, grants received and so on.
I dream of a world where food is plenteous, where fruits and vegetables are everyday portions of our servings, where we eat today's and not have to scavenge for tomorrow's. A world where human beings do not wait patiently for the next animal that will defecate just so they can pacify their hunger with its dung or where vulture hovers above without relenting, carefully watching when this starved baby finally drops dead just so it can carry the carcase far away for consumption. This sounds ridiculous, but it happens in the world we live in today. We live in a world where a picture of extremely malnourished children in a country ravished by hunger and famine whose parents can not afford a piece of bread worth 5 cents sells for thousands of dollars at an arts exhibition in Europe. A picture that should rather spur us to action.
These and many more are my expectations of my dream world. We might not completely resolve all these challenges, imbalances and problems identified at once, ranging from education, climate change, hunger, famine, money laundering, terrorism to religious extremism but we can make concerted efforts at addressing them and seeing them resolved as individuals, groups, societies, nations and governments. Our little 'drops' of actions might just make an 'ocean' of change.
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