When you roam in the streets of Zacatecas and find a poor Mexican their dream will most likely be to be able to accomplish their dreams (American Dream) in the land of opportunities. My Dad was one of those Mexicans as a kid. His dream was to be successful in any way. My Dad’s American dream began with his hopes of going to college. He wanted to go to college and fulfill his dream of being a leader of anything he wanted to be once he reached the chance to put his hands on the list of the unlimited options or opportunities he could possibly receive once he stepped foot on the United States. “ I wanted to be a leader in anything I would set my mind to,” my dad quickly snapped, “If it was being in the factory that I worked for, or on a job I would do on my own, working for my own account.” I know my dad cannot stand someone bossing him around. He would work in a factory where he would make car accessories. He was manager of this factory. He started off just by knowing how to drive. He would move around the trucks full of packages or boxes that were ready to be shipped. After he started joining the packaging workers. Wanting to be even more he would stay committed to his job so much he took the place of the old manager once he got fired.

Unfortunately, his plans of going to go college were not a fulfillment in the beginning of his journey of succeeding goals or his “American Dream” . He started to work. He still has much left to go through to complete what he had planned for , what he now calls his seconded American dream. “I still have a lot to go through to get to my goals that I wanted once I came here” explaining as relaxed as he was, he continued “but with what I have now and how I am living now I am completely satisfied.” He always wanted to raise a immense loving family and that is one of his goals that he has already completed and done well.

My father, one of the most stubborn people out in the world. Being stubborn is like a knife with two sharp ends. Anything that he doesn’t think is right or is just not his way of doing things he will not listen to you. He will complete whatever he sets his mind to do as quick as he can or wants. He will not change his thoughts since he “does not care who he is with or where he is at...he will always stay and think the same period .” My dad is what some people would call “not modern people” would call or consider “old fashioned” or too “Old School” . Some of his stubbornness certainly rubbed off on his four children because I too have been told that I am stubborn or “terqua”. He will not stand by looking at others wait for things to be done. He had gotten injured about three times. He had surgery for his injury and still went to work on the third day of coming out of the hospital when he had two months of no hard labor jobs. We told him not to work because we already had money and he is going be even more hurt after his working day. This shows not only how stubborn he is but also how much he can’t stand not doing anything.

My “Old School” dad also saw how technology kept increasing in its accessibility, how it helps us even more to communicate with one another. Also on how we are now even more connected with things that go around in the world. On the other hand, he also believes that the more that technology advances, the more people become even more useless. These situations happened right through his eyes and this is what he believes from what he has seen. As he hesitated to put his thoughts together “Technology is a tool that many of us have used in a very wrong way or just don’t know how to manage using it”.

These kind of people are who I call mummies. Old at heart and should be buried with all their precious thoughts and beliefs that I would consider jewels of our unique mentality.