GREEN LIGHT

GIVE ME THE GREEN LIGHT
GIVE ME JUST ONE NIGHT
I'M READY TO GO RIGHT NOW

For English, we're supposed to write this essay about our "Green Light." We just read The Great Gatsby, which I didn't read but totally aced in the ass DASSRIGHT!. But let's review what the "Green Light" is.

Jay Gatsby was standing at the edge of a dock, looking out into the infinite abyss. In the distance was a green light, possibly blinking from a ship, maybe from an island across the way. He was standing on her dock, and she just watched him stare into the dark. The Green Light represents his ambition for his dream. He was an empty man, built on empty desires. He wanted to be rich, so he swindled and bootlegged. He wanted to be a socialite, so he threw parties and money away. He did it all for the woman of his dreams, who disappointed him in the end because money and its roots of evil set standards no woman could reach. She wanted to love him, and saw him as her every way out, but they were just two star-crossed lovers seeing Green Lights in opposite directions.

His American Dream was all wrong. So wrong that it was realized and found unrealistic. He finally had the money, the car, the pinstripes, and the marked-up passport. But it was everything he wanted and nothing he needed. All he needed was her, but he was all she wanted because her husband gave her everything she needed.

I have a vision for the future, and I try to grab hold of it each day. My American Dream is going off to college, having the car I want, living in the place I want, working as much as I need to but playing as much as I want to... and having all the alcohol I want with all the de-stressing I need. If you know what I mean. Haha, just kidding. But I have to be realistic and prioritize things I need first.

My American Dream should be as follows:
+ Please teachers with test scores
+ Please parents with Zangle
+ Please relatives with looks and grades
+ Please friends with talking to them during school but rarely outside of it
+ Please people who happen to look my way just by the way i look

At least, this is the way my American Dream is according to what my parents want. What I truly want is to be happy, successful in what I consider a quality life, with the things I want and the people I need, working for things that will benefit me as a person, and meeting time with confidence as we age and grow grey. And in the end, all I dream of is sharing a life of experience and wisdom, to teach and learn from another whose life and dreams will be enriched in love.

My "Green Light" is my positive outlook that my dreams can become real because I believe I can, and I believe I know and will know the greatest people to walk this earth, who will give me strength and faith and I'll do the same.

Especially that someone somewhere out there... whose life I'll change forever.
I wonder what he's doing right now.
And I wonder if his ankle's alright.


...I LOVE JOHN LEGEND. I LOVED HIM BEFORE ALL YA'LL LOVED HIM, BITCHES!
I'LL TELL YOU MY AMERICAN DREAM. I WANT TO GO TO THE REGGAE FEST ON THE BAHAMA-CARRIBEAN-BERMUDA COASTS BUT SINCE THAT MIGHT NOT HAPPEN, I WANT TO GO SEE JOHN LEGEND. AND I WANT HIM TO GET A BONER ON STAGE WITH ME!!!! I DEFINITELY DESERVE IT!!!


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