Plethora of Thought

So it seems i begin to use this space as a free think area, this is completely seperate and in no way with Mr. D's class(so if you expect anything more than a rant then look elsewere you expect structure one consistent thought oooh you wont find that here!)(Photograph is copyright by Rachel Marie Taylor btw). I have considered why it is we live. What is our eternal purpose. For each to their own yes? We all have reasons to live, we all have this perceived American Dream(ohh menindo you were going somewhere with all that ranting i see), we also have this capitalistic ideal of where we want to be in life. Something that is either fed in through childhood or picked up from the television. Why is it that parents want their child to achieve more than they had, is it not already perceived that the child already attains what the parents already has, for many this is obviously not the case. But if i was to tell someone at my age that my lifes goal was eventually to leave everything material behind and head to the far reaches of the earth and spend a year or so in total solitude, would i not be seen as insane or ridiculous almost a laughable? But who is this other person to laugh at my dream, what if i laugh at your "american dream" or your parents dreams i'm sure you would feel quite hurt. But is having solitude from humanity all so different is there things that do not give one satisfaction even though it happens to leave behind everything that the materialistic society represents. Why is it in our society we resent differences? As a child i didnt speak english of any sort up until the second grade where i was finally fluet, through this time my peers were generally accepting as there were many japanese, korean, and chinese student in the same boat thus i grew up learning many strange accents within my wording and to this day you can hear these strange things stick out my english switching from horrid "grammar" to something of a solid chop-chop-chop english to a british english all of these different englishes effecting me, and from what i can tell i can carry a conversation with any given english speaker fairly well. What im trying to point out with this situation is why would this be seen as such a horrible thing why is it so horrible for achild to want to grow up to be nothing more than a farmer? Do we have a right to look down on this child? How does all of this connect to overall happiness of this child, is he any less happier than the struggling college student making loans and constantly stressing to just get to the internship that awaits him in his long journey to his actual goal? And when this college student reaches his goal is he happier than the farmer? The capitalistic compelling of america, will be the next subject. Why you ask do europeans live longer? why are they smoking and still living longer? Maybe its food, health insurance plethora of different things who knows! my personal thought, my father's personal thought. the American Drive: as we say. This american drive may be a bad thing may be a good thing. Starting from the puritan work ethic it grew to what it is now. America as my dad says "24 hour buisness that never stops running even when it runs out of fuel it will run on the blood of the employees" with this it explains much of what we "opinionize" this country has stressed so much in more, more more people do not sleep, we stress, we all want nothing but more. We want bigger and better everything (not necesarrily a bad thing) we have bigger fruit because of chemicals our chicken if you compare KFC chiken in hong kong to the local chiken you will see the obvious difference in size. The cars here are gigantic compared to everything else in the world our freeways are jam packed our traffic tickets are sky scrapers in amount. We do nothing but more money more food bigger food at the fastest possible way ever. My father has lived in most countries of Europe(Finland, Germany, France, England, Norway, Sweden) everyone closes down at what time, 6 pm, people go home at what time 8pm sure they are loosing that money possibly but what exactly are they gaining are they working their fingers to the bone? Are they happy in what they have? Are they content where they are living? Are they content with their small car middle sized house and small family? Mostly yes. Obviously the nature of capitalism is just that more progress more money strive for a better future but is that the future YOU really want? In all honesty take away your parents the media the house you live in the technology everything. What is it that you REALLY want? Is it that new ipod on the market or is it something simpler like more freinds to come to your picnic(because people have picnics now a days). Really i think if we really take the influences we have from everything around us if we explore deep within ourselves you can see what it is you truley desire in life, once you have that you may actually see what your reason to living is. for anyone who has read so far i am in no way against capitalism i am in no way a dirty marxist crazy right left up or down i am simply me nothing more nothing less, i am neither deep nor shallow or am i attempting at that. I am not trying to persuade or show my horrible grammar/punctuation errors to the world. Simply writing to write.