Our life is full of senses, feelings, desires and dreams. But the problem is that all our emotions can often not agree closely with each other, and I should say is stronger - they can be in conflict with one another. We have only one life and we should put everything in order to be happy. These are my personal thoughts about my obligations, wishes, opportunities and dreams.

I don't have many obligations in my life. But I know that I must do some necessary things for my future. I think that housekeeping is not a very strong obligation for me now, because I have a lot of free time to do ordinary things. I am wondering about my future life in this country and the life of my future children. I must do some obvious things to improve my communication skills in society. First of all, I must study English as hard as I can. I should have very advanced English to be able to have a good job, to understand all details of my American Life. Second of all, I must learn more about specific things of American medicine, insurance system, education, and etc. It's very important for the people who came from foreign countries. And last, I must try to have a good education here to have a chance to compete in the job finding.

To summarize all that I have to or must do, I can tell that my main obligation is to try to be like other Americans, not to be an immigrant all the time (and to make excuses to myself) and have the same conditions and opportunities to reach my American dream.

We all wish to live happy. I think everybody should live the way they really want to. Unfortunately there are a lot of problems and limitations, which make that impossible. I have one limitation in my life. My husband and I live too far from our families. They live in Russia. We should live near our relatives, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers. We should have the opportunity to be close to each other.

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