Wednesday, July 23, 2008

DREAMer conversations Part II

The issue of DREAMers and blaming somebody for the bind in which we are in comes up a lot, or at least I find it as a very common subject of conversation among DREAMers.

Yes, this may seem as very unimportant and irrelevant to many, but it is so HUGE. People blaming their parents is a huge weight; many DREAMers genuinely blame their parents and hold it against them deep inside for being in this limbo.

Particularly, younger DREAMers are usually more angry and confused than older DREAMers-I know i was when i was in high school; i was a bundle of anger and confusion. I think that younger DREAMers are usually more confused about this whole situation when other issues like fitting in with their friends are important to them. At this point their many of their friends are getting their driver licenses, traveling, applying to colleges(some we could not attend), etc., and they find themselves without reasons to explain why they are not able to do any of those things. Perhaps, older DREAMers like myself come to grips with the situation and have learned to deal with it or just getting older allows us to understand our parents and their motives a lot better.

I hope that this conversation with our fellow DREAMer allows people to understand the preoccupations that haunt the lives of the 65,000+ DREAMers in the U.S.

0 comments: