Because to be married you need a good income.
JOSH: So, your dream needs money! How do you plan to get money?
PETER: Save…work hard! I might have to take some risks in the future. I like my work. I haven’t had a vacation in five years. When I earn enough money to get married my dream will be half there. I probably will have to take some risks in the future if I want to fulfill my dream.
JOSH: You of course, know money can’t buy happiness?
PETER: Money can buy a house!
JOSH: All know that honest work doesn’t always result in prosperity. There are many poor people who strive and never will improve their fate.
PETER: Except for the lazy or impaired, honest work will improve their lot….somewhat… anyway. “A rising tide raises all ships”. But contacts, taking risks, and hard work are better rewarded.
JOSH: Don’t forget goals, luck, intelligence, education, fathers money…..
PETER: You sit alone in this dark corner and know America? Do you know what Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence?
JOSH: Do you know his words?
PETER: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that are among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
JOSH: A plus!
PETER: Are you a teacher?
JOSH: History… in some way.
PETER: Then you know that in The French Constitution, written at about the same time, “Freedom, Equality, and Brotherhood” side stepped the words “Pursuit of Happiness”.
JOSH: Why do you, Peter, need a family, for your happiness?
PETER: Well, Jefferson wrote that his family was the most beautiful happiness of his life.
JOSH: Why do you harp on “Jefferson”, “Jefferson”?…. his words, his thoughts on family.. Do you know Jefferson was a large plantation owner and a racist?
PETER: Of course he had slaves that was a different time. Over two hundred years so much has changed. You can’t look at his slave holdings with our modern eyes. Besides he changed opinions as he grew older.
JOSH: Yes somewhat, but he always thought the blacks inferior, that slavery should end but blacks and whites could not live together in the same society. He wrote against mixing blood of blacks and whites but he had one definite and maybe more children with his slave Sally Hemings
PETER: What about his wife?
JOSH: His wife died very young, after two children.
PETER: Maybe Sally is just hearsay.
JOSH: Recent DNA tests of descendants of Sally and Jefferson are statistically conclusive.
