I have the desire to run for office eventually, not today or tomorrow but someday I wish to take the stand for my fellow Americans as my forefathers did before me. Through real experience, I will hone my beliefs into something more practical and based on reality. Dreams are beautiful examples of imagination, but for the most part, they have no immediate application to society. They have to be tempered through trial and hardship, even Dr. Martin Luther King had to address his original opinion about his I Have a Dream speech and how the civil rights movement was progressing. Saying “I must confess that dream that I had that day has at many points turned into a nightmare & and some of the old optimism was a little superficial now it must be tempered with a solid realism, and the realistic fact is we still have a long, long way to go”. I find myself wanting to take my dreams and temper them into something applicable to the modern world, dreams that can’t be implemented effectively have no use to anyone.

I have gone to the lengths to work in practical government situations with all the realistic grind of bureaucracy and the people that make it possible. The experiences that I have cultivated so far have not exposed me to the necessary level of tragedy that I feel is required to understand the average American. The American dream is a road filled with sadness, depression, struggle, and above all hope; and it is my hope that I will continue to refine my dreams so as to one day implement them in reality.