The future perfect present tense? I'm just making that up.

This week has brought few communities across the country together to vote. In Maine, unfortunately for the gay community (my community), people there voted against same sex marriage. I have to be honest, I felt bad, sad, frustrated, but just a little bit. The fact is that we still have a lot of work to do, but as I have thought, and now I'm saying, I am not worry at all that someday, the majority of the people of this beautiful country will vote for the right to everyone in the gay community to get married.

Yesterday, I was watching a video with Professor Vijay Govindarajan, and one statement he made was that the future is now. We need to work the future in this present moment, basically, for what I understood, to get out of this recession, but also to accomplish and reach our goals.

I think about the gay community, and I think about Harvey Milk. My mind tells me that wherever he is, he has to be proud of what we have accomplished, and that we have continued working the path he and others started. The gay community is working the future NOW, and I keep telling myself that I may not see in my lifetime the right to be married in every state and community in the United States, BUT, nobody neither anything is going to stop that.

The gay community has planted so many seeds everywhere, for flowers, fruits, vegetables, and for PEOPLE, and we keep watering and feeding the gardens where those seeds are, with love, compassion, understanding, openness, fun, respect, that nothing is going to stop them from growing, from being a beautiful representation of life, and living together as a whole.

I'm certainly not worried about loosing one battle right now (I'm talking about you Maine). I hate to use the word war, so I'm going to stick to my garden and keep feeding and watering the seeds, through my community, and now I'm speaking my whole community. I'm going to give more, to love more, to teach more to everyone around me, and show them that gay people are good people, fun people, lovely people, friendly people. AND, nobody is going to change that.

The future is happening right now. The gay community is still facing some challenges but, there is nothing is this world that is going to stop the changes we have already seen, we are seeing, and the ones that will happen by tomorrow, and the day after. It may take an extra day, but it will be worth it. So, later than sooner, but, Maine will, someday, vote to give the right for gay people to get married, and keep our society growing as a beautiful rose or a strong redwood tree.