ABRAHAM LINCOLN, DREAMS AND THE YOUTH; LEARNING FROM HIS DEATH.
If there were a technology in form of a machine and that if you step on this machine you change race; there could be a long queue on the African –white race and possibly none on the white-African race queue. This kind of joke was real during Abraham Lincoln’s era. This man, Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809. Throughout the American history, he is probably remembered due to the role he played in bringing political and social transformation during one of Americas darkest moments; the civil war. His assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was so much agitated by Abraham’s move to grant the blacks voting rights. In fact it was this move that made Booth to change his mind from that of kidnapping to that of killing him. He is fondly remembered also as one great American president who died while in power, then history would repeat itself with the death of J.F Kennedy and that of presidential aspirant Robert Kennedy in 1968, almost a hundred years later. Dreams and the youth are the issues I explore a little today in connection to Abraham Lincolns’ death.
Dreams
Lincoln had this repeating dream that he often saw himself lying dead in a coffin. The very point on the East room of the white house he often dreamt of, is the same room he lay dead after his assassination at Ford’s theater in 1865. Dreams are often taken to be mere imaginations during our sleeping moments. Some people argue that these imageries arise due to the experiences we go through during daytime. The nature of this dreams are dependent on the nature of our experiences. Like if you dream of scary dreams, chances are that the experiences you had recently or within that day were scary. Looking at the case of Lincoln however, one realizes that dreams are also important components of foretelling our future occurrences. His dreams were bad but kept repeating themselves again and again. The dreams were communicating something and the approach Lincoln gave them is an inspiration. He knew that his death was not something to run away from, he would die someday; he lived and waited for it. He took his wife to a walk to rekindle the old memories days before his death. The only thing he didn’t know was the exact time of that death. Finally the dream came to pass.
We should not treat dreams in us lightly. Though some dreams will not be clearly telling of the future, let’s analyze them and learn from them. Hold on to good ones.
The youth
Wondering about the youth, Abraham Lincoln was a youth in mind because of the vigor of his thoughts. The thoughts have lived with us for long, if they were old, they could not be there to this date. In reality though, Abraham was not a young man, he died at 56. The part that is rather interesting is the ages of the people convicted of his death. All of them were aged between 20 and 35 years of age, a clear distinctive age boundary of the people termed as youth. I have noted in reality how most of the bad things are always done by the youth in our societies.
Youth empowerment and training is a crucial part of molding our young people. I am wondering if the youth have been forgotten all through history and that perhaps that could be the reason why they are doing drugs, why they are cheap catch for violence or even terror. I am very optimistic even so that in future; I will write great things about the majority of youth changing economies greatly. We are doing well but there is still room for doing better and in large numbers.
Abraham Lincoln lived over a hundred and forty years ago. To say that he died too early depends with our own personal judgments. I was not there and neither were you, but his quotes, his live achievements have inspired me greatly. His inspiration made this article successful. Be inspired too.
Geoffrey Ndege Copyright@ 2015
As much as we the youth argues we have been neglected we should ask ourselves, what we are doing to make our lives worth living? What’s that we are doing to make relevant levels of help neglect us? Are we really prepared for help with all this idleness & don’t care attitude? We got to handle the bigger part of our problems. Its our lives after all. Nice article bro. Kudos.