Seeing the water

To a fish, water is just water, its lived there it's whole life, it's unable to see factors that contribute to the behavior of other fish. Being a U.S citizen, I've grown accustomed to possessing

a lot of freedom. (I'm not sure if this is something we talked about, but it is based on actual experiences and encounters.) I never really thought America was all that great, to me it was what it was, nothing all that golden. Anyway, I met this girl one day who was foreign, and it was bizzare to her-that we had the opportunity of choice, and the power of voice. She was very timid, cautious, while I was the exact opposite. She came here from China. She saw America in a completely different light than I did, and she definitely appreciated things that I saw as simple, basic human liberties. It was as if I was a fish in water, and she was a scuba diver, analyzing every detail of an aquatic ecosystem, while I just floated there and swallowed water.

I'm not even sure how I navigate through modern culture, I just do my own things, and I never really bothered to adjust-behaviorally I mean. I think I can find my own happiness in my life currently and in the future.

I think that the one American value I really embrace is hard work. Doing nothing gets you nowhere in life, you cant walk through a maze when you're sitting down staring into space. Like in school, if I don't try I don't do good, or as good i should be doing, but if I do try, I know for a fact that I'll go far. Working hard is a way to truly find happiness, because it makes you appreciate things more than if you didn't.