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I‘ve Unsubscribed From the American Dream
And it would help if you considered It Too.
As a kid, I dreamed of being Daniel LaRusso from Karate Kid.
To be the middle-class kid who doesn’t let his dreams get taken away, works hard and ends up winning the karate championship, kicking Tommy’s ass, and falling in love with Ali Mils, aka the girl of my dreams.
But it wasn’t like that.
It was more like the new Karate Kid series. But instead of being Daniel LaRusso, who grew up and built a big car dealership, lived in a mansion, and had a fairy tale family, I’m Tommy, who grew up to be a broke loser without a happy family.
After all, the great American dream was always a beautiful lie. That’s why I’m unsubscribing from it. And it would help if you did the same for the following reasons.
The happy family thing is a bad joke.
All you need to do is google “divorce rate” for five minutes, and you will find the following headlines.
- Of every ten marriages that occur, seven end in a breakup.
- In the last quarter, there were 105,800 breakups, 100,746 divorces, 5,034 separations, and 113 annulments.
