What I want is to not have to struggle to tell people what I mean.
What I want is for people to feel it themselves.
What I want is to have a story that is equal
and has the power and the emotion that I feel.
What I want is to be a leader in the movement.
What I want is to go back in time and be a leader when it would have counted.
What I want is all the days and images and feelings and people and pain to come back to me
in a real way so that I can say something that would be significant.
What I want is the support of my family.
What I want is for the people I care about to care about the things that I care about.
What I want is for people to realize that there is more - that we are all connected,
that we are all beautiful, that the earth is beautiful.
What I want is for people who have hearts and money to stand up and say that this is enough.
What I want is is to go back to Iraq and meet my friends and tell them I'm sorry.
I want to know if they are OK.
I want to know if they hate us.
I want to know if they understand that I didn't know.
I want to look back and say that I was in the fight and that it mattered.
I want it to matter.
