victor: i was talking to mandi earlier today about satisfaction. It seems that often times true satisfaction is so elusive. You run that mile in under 5 minutes... you make your first million... you win that competition, but for what? it seems that society has already dictated our very lives. From what is right/wrong to the very meaning of success and happiness. I know that not everyone follows the mold but I wonder if the American dream to have the freedom to be who you want to be has been hijacked and transformed into some subtle totalitarian system (that was the first to come to my mind) where we are following a predestined path under the guise of the so called freedom. So are we our own person? To succeed in the society we live in, we have to follow its rules... the society is built around the cocept of freedom yet to deviate from the given path often leaves you ostricized... so do we really have the precious freedom the we all seem to hold so dear?   ¶ 7:43 PM