The State of Hope

                                                                The State of Hope

California has been one of the most popular state to live, to succeed and to retired; everyone that comes to California, they come full of dreams and hopes to become more successful and have a better life, a better future and a better reputation.  When we picture California, we see ourselves in a beach relaxing under the sun with a bunch of money around and that is what we want, we came to California to pursuit our happiness. That is why California is the state of hope.

I learned that California is the home of gold, celebrities, fame, money, beaches, mansions, Disneyland, education, technology and above all, hope. “The promises of the California Dream raise the expectations (…) hoping that their lives here will be better than what they leave behind (…) is [the best and last] chance of success”(CDR,25). When I arrived to California, it has being the America to my eyes, when I held my flight ticket; I hold it as a bible, as a key to a new world because Arizona is too hot and New York is too cold. I choose California as the perfect state to dream because my Mom said that this place would give us all the things that we have been dreaming for a long time, without suffering and starving and to leave behind all our frustrations; and it was true California changed my life. Sometimes I picture myself as rich as Steve Jobs, famous as Tom Cruise and smart as Bill Gates, and when I said picture I am dreaming on becoming a person that would change the world. I am making my dreams come true by going to school and graduate, and I know that I will get what I dream in this state. Be in California is being privileged to have the weapons to succeed in whatever you want to do.

However, California is sugar coded with too much sweet that can kill you with diabetes and vanish your dreams away. “[The] vivid images [of sunshine, beaches and Hollywood] the pursuit (…) has long been thought to have been the primary motivation [for coming to California]”(CDR, 40) which in this statement Denise S. Spooner is right for the perspective on the Dream. People all over the world come to California because they think they can get it fast and easy like in the images. Is too sweet to be truth and not everyone can make it. I called myself as an international dreamer; I came to change my life. The pictures, movies and people succeeding have being motivating to continue with my California Dream, but the sweet from too much sugar is affecting me to succeed and make my dreams vanish forever. The frustration of not having it fast and now the fabulous images makes me to give up, and go back from where I came, but there I have nothing. But this place, this state is “the strongest in all the world, with its steep cliffs and rocky shores (…) wild beast (…) and gold” (CDR, 31) The California state is one of the most beautiful place I have ever seen, with the wild beast like Lindsey Lohan and Charlie Shean and the money I will make after completing my dreams. Here is the only place I know and that I like to succeed. My friend Ivan, he came from Mexico fifteen years ago and he wanted to be a lawyer but he came with nothing to start his dream. He worked and studied and now he got what he wanted it; he is a successful lawyer, with a big house and a wonderful family. California was the place where he made his dream come true.

California has everything that every country would dream to have, in which they hope one day would get it. Unfortunately geological speaking, California is in between of San Andreas fault that will transform the state into nothing. As David A. Kaplan understands that California is the state of “Get it today, because it may be gone tomorrow” (The Sillicon Boys, 27) Let’s squish the juice out of lemon, lets get what we dream and make it true from this state of hope. I am enjoying being here, I am almost completing one of my dreams, graduating from college. California for me is the best place I have ever been, I like my country but I love it here. I have hope that one day I will change the world from California and I will say that everything started in the land of hope, where all the dreams come true. There is not place like California.