aikaterine

I decided today that the American Dream isn't for me. All my life, since I was a little girl, I been told that I wanted a husband, 2.4 children and 1.5 pets and a picket fence and so on and so forth. I guess when I was little I believed people when they told me that would satisfy me.

It won't. And I'm just now realizing and coming to grips with the fact that I will not wind up with a two-story house in an affluent suburban community - sending my children to a high school where the biggest problem they will run into is not having as much money as the most popular kid in the class.

That's the upbringing I had, and while my childhood was extremely happy for the most part - my parents and friends made me happy - not my surroundings.

I've never done things the normal way my whole life. My new dream is simply to never do things the way people expect me to. Maybe I'll get married, maybe I won't. Maybe it will be to a man, maybe it will be to a woman. Maybe I'll have kids, maybe I'll adopt or maybe I'll join the Peace Corps and help other people take care of their kids.

Point being - I don't want to be trapped behind a picket fence. It's okay that other people want that, and it's okay that I don't.