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Imagine? Not Anymore

Prompt: "The world can live as one."
A line from John Lennon's song "Imagine". Write about this in your Blog entry today.

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I've loved this song from the very start. I think I first heard it during the very early nineteen seventies. It is said that not John Lennon but his wife Yoko Ono wrote the lyrics. At the time, I didn't know that. Then, when John Lennon's personal problems was made public, I was disappointed. It felt like hypocrisy to me.

Still, we human beings are complicated. People do make mistakes a lot, but we can also change. I hope John Lennon did.

As to the quote from the song, is it really doable? As old as I am, I waited for the world to be one and work as one for a very long time. Just look at the troubles and wars all over now. Not only people cannot agree on anything but also the countries and nations are at odds with one another. Is this the world the song Imagine is talking about?

You know the answer. Yes, the song is a musical wish of peace, unity, and hope for the world, and it's probably the best song ever, but still, my heart breaks for the wishful thinking in it that may never become the truth of us all.