The world seems to be turning at a faster pace each day. We start our mornings off with a tall coffee and keep ourselves going through the day with a red bull because we arrogant humans will not take the time to slow down and take a nap. Most of us go home only to sleep and prepare for the next day; making home cooked meals a joke and simple conversations seem time consuming.
The “American Dream” is not similar in any way to the modern American family. This “Dream” entails a loving mother that stays at home every day to look after the house and take care of the children while a hardworking father is making a lavish salary to bring home to pay for the children’s lunches, milk money, and also provide enough for the mother to go purchase hats and attend luncheons with the other ladies of the town. This family-who is commonly pictured as white- is clean and their house is spotless. No one ever fights and there is no sadness.
Now, usually, both parents work to bring home money that seems to barely stretch far enough to pay all of the bills. Housework gets pushed aside and most children rarely ever eat a home-cooked meal. Spouses fight over their children’s fighting. Peace remains to be seen.
What happened to us? The answer is simple. The human condition compels us to want to be better than everybody else, at everything. We always have to achieve more success every year. We disregard that we are imperfect and have limits. Unless people somehow become robots in the near future, we will have to settle for what we have and lower the preposterous expectations of ourselves. As a result, the modern family would be happier, healthier, and closer to the ideal “American Dream.”
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