The American Dream, that old American ethos. What does it mean today? To me? To you?
Is it apple pie, picket fences. Is it a middle class family with 1.6 kids or couple in their eighties celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary?
James Adams wrote that the "It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."
Martin Luther King Junior wrote "when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence."
I think it may be simpler.. I think the American Dream is in every moment, good or bad..
I think most people come into adulthood with these beautiful dreams of what life will be like (wouldnt it be nice if we were older....) and on the other hand we have what life turned out to be.. I think we are happiest in the moments that fall in between, there is where you will find the American dream..
