The American Dream….
Deep Thoughts June 30th, 2008
What is The American Dream? This is something I have been asking myself a lot here lately. I feel I have a unique perspective on this question, because I am not from America. My mom and dad moved here to find the American Dream. They moved here for my sister and I to find it. Americans had found it, so now it was our turn to try and find it. When I was about seven years old, long before I knew I was moving to America I had a dream I was in American….flying (yes flying) around tall buildings (hang in there Kelly, I am not going to get all dream interpretation on you) but I dream t of America. I think I had just seen the music video “Born in the USA” so somehow it snuck into my night time dreams. Five years later when I turned twelve, we packed five suitcases and got on a plane and that was it, bye bye Ireland, hello USA.
Am I living the American Dream? Back then the dream was big house, big car, big TV, everything was cheap, money was no object, because this was America! Eighteen years later that dream seems so silly. Now, I am trying to sell my big house, avoid a big car, everything is expensive! Ok I am keeping the Big TV, sorry. So the dream has changed. My American Dream is now very different. An old friend introduced me to their husband this weekend, and said, “this is Greg, he is from Ireland, but has a southern accent” I kinda sunk in my seat a little bit. I am not knocking the southern accent (Leigh Anne), but it kinda hit me…….I am one of US now. Was that not my dream? To be American? To fit in? I guess it was. So to answer my question, Yes. I am living the American Dream, because I married an American Girl, I have an American Boy, and now I am an American Man, doing things the American way……kinda. I still have my Irish moments. But you know what? I am going to hold onto my Irish ways, because they make people laugh, and they make me who I am. Ok thats all I got.
July 1st, 2008 at 5:44 am
thanks for not oversharing your dream, though for a moment i got excited, because i used to have dreams about flying and i thought you knew that or something.
i’ve always wondered what it would be like to start your life in one place and then do the rest of it somewhere else altogether. maybe it’s not so different from everyone else, except you say haitch instead of h.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:21 am
I’m quite certain the coolest juxtaposition of cultures is half Irish, half Georgian. What this really means is that you are THE coolest kid on the block.
Go drink your Tetley’s…and wear a wife beater while doing so.
July 1st, 2008 at 12:57 pm
LMAO at the way we pronounce our “H”. I still dont see the difference in the way I say it vs you Americans. But I always get asked to repeat it when I say it, and then it is followed with laughter. And I always fly in my dreams.