i have been planning to do this for a long time, but somehow it just slipped every time...so lemme start this by saying sorry to someone to whom i became a pest some years back over here...TheNakedProfessor, i think the ID was...so here it goes..."if you around i am sorry"...the person once wrote a blog, which i didn't agree with, because i guess, i didn't understand what it meant...i do now...i have a pretty good memory, and i do remember all the people i have been creepy to...thankfully it does give me the chance to say sorry...
the great American Dream for some is all about a green card, higher income (off course if you are educated enough to earn the income), better security, etc, etc...but its not...the great American Dream for me is far more complex...

i am an Indian...India has a very rich and cultured civilization from ancient times...wow, that did read like a line from the booklet of some creepy Nationalistic Party...pretty creepy...lemme put it better, i am an Indian, and rather much caught up in the bullshit of a so called ancient and rich civilization...that's more like what i mean...
yeah India...the land of Basmati rice, yoga, shunya (zero), cheap outsourced labor...and yeah Kamasutra (that's how the world knows about us)...well in most reality a large part of the population i am pretty sure is caught up in being Indian, and copying the West...sounds sad, and indeed also it is...i know best cause i am also caught up in the same circle...we move around in circles, negotiating, between two civilizations...one partly alien, and the other supposedly what our identity...i don't in actuality belong anywhere...yeah apart from the masses who are juggling the same balls...
there is entire generation of the world caught between what we see and perceive as Western, and what we have been dictated do it...i have never been dictated to do anything in my life, thankfully, but even then i am caught, i can truly imagine the plight of those who are...
strangers in a strange land...and the strange land is what is supposedly ours...so we have our closets to be who we really are ;-)

so the great American dream probably is a significance of the a simple word...freedom...freedom to be who you are with boundaries...
the world doesn't change much with civilizations...the people do remain the same...the same prejudices, the same quirks, the same inherent emotions we all feel...but it does sound better in the great American dream...as the screen seems more eye-catching in the movies...
i don't have any interest in living the dream...but i do understand...and that's good enough for me...but i would also love a day when i could drink water straight from the tap...

alive and kickin...
;-)