The American Dream???
The other day I was invited to do a video commemorative video for the Kansas City Courthouse, based on Naturalization, some milestone? Can't remember off the top of my head right now. Anyway.... I had several questions that were sent to me prior to this interview, and I had no idea what to expect. Once I got to the courthouse, there was one other lady there that was going to interview before mine and because it was the last ones of the day, I decided to sit in on her interview. She was probably about late 30s with a few kids here. Her story was very interesting...one of the questions was about what her dream was, and it was to bring her kids to freedom. That is something that really hit me, it made me think...I have, just as mostly everyone, asked what is your dream, most of us answer something with the future of what we want. Our hopes and dreams, usually consist of something materialistic with some success. It was interesting to hear of someone say that their dream is freedom. I never thought of something that simple as a dream. I was fortunate to be adopted at a very young age, my dream evolved over time but never consisted of freedom. It made me think of how lucky we are as individuals living in a free county. That we don't think of the people that dream of freedom, because we are lucky enough to have it every day. She also was asked questions about her first 4th of July here and that she got a little emotional, it almost made me emotional...thinking about how much that freedom and that flag that waves means to her. I wondered if other naturalized citizens felt the same way after becoming a citizen. I was naturalized when I was in 5th grade, just so I was old enough to remember it. I do remember being so nervous, saying an oath with several other individuals, and at the time it didn't mean that much to me, but now, as an adult I feel lucky.
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