What I was thinking when I saw the Green Light

I believed in the future of potential and promise. I always dreamed of being with Daisy, and I will someday reach toward a future where that might be a reality. I guess it’s somewhat of an “American” idea for me to always be striving for something just beyond, to be pushing for the new, to stretch my arms out further. I climbed out from humble beginnings and pushed forward to create my own fortune in life, where I saw a future and dream that I wanted and worked to achieve it.



But it's funny how we humans are also nostalgic. And so there is this push-and-pull within myself, as a wealthy businessman; as a man with an impoverished background stretching behind me like a shadow, clinging to my heels. I am a dreamer and a romantic, who longs for an idealized version of Daisy and believe in a pure and true sort of love.



I will reach for a future that I long for and that I dream of. I will work to try to obtain it, strives for it. And yet, the memories of my past push against me relentlessly.