You are never Beneath A Dream

Representative Heuristics, making judgements based off of preexisting prototypes and stereotypes, can be a hindrance when considering my dreams. Perhaps when one realizes that "being a female doctor is not yet accepted by society" (http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/mar/21/women-workplace-everyday-sexism), she might give up her dreams entirely. And on top of that, money is a huge problem. Consider the ever increasing costs of college, and then think of all the rash decisions your family may have made to increase their chances on the economical leave l. For example, you might have a brother who is convinced that a liquor store is the way to go, or a dad who wants to invest in a new business venture that you are 99% positive is going to be risky and unstable. Many men, not all but many, in our ever existing society believe that their dreams are better than ours. With all the feminism rights protests, one would think that they might find our dreams equally as important, but I have found that our dreams are inferior to theirs, which I find as illogical and impractical."I always thought [being a doctor] was the one concrete thing in the world that a human being could do. Fix up the sick, you know –" (A raisin in the sun), so I couldnt understand why my dreams to become something concrete were being obstructed by someone with abstract and complicated ones.

 Suddenly, I was plagued with this terrible feeling that the world was truly not worth saving anyways. If all I my dreams consisted of trying to increase the health of someone who wanted to obstruct my dreams, then the world was truly a twisted place. I was ready to give up my dreams,  when I was doused with a refreshing change. Doctoring, I learned, is something bold and beautiful and its a challenge that will prove quite fruitful. If us women never truly can prove to the world that what we do is worth its time, then society will forever be stuck in a unjust cycle of inequality.

" '[Life] isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the "realists"!' " (A Raisin in the Sun)
To succeed, women should look beyond the circle of reality.

Pink Elephants + Elephants in the room= A whole mess

Today, society avoids the elephants in the room by a various means of escape. Silence, aversion, and distraction can be used to beat around the bush, but the one elephant we can't ignore is the "pink elephant". Pink elephants, according to Meriam Webster, are visual hallucinations that occur from a state of psychological and physical drunkenness. This inner battle of mental disillusion can let the elephant out of its cage,  or the "cat" out of the bag. As proven in F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, A Diamond as Big as the Ritz, drunkenness doesn't just refer to a state of alcoholism, but also to a greed or obsession with something, in this case money, that can impair one's judgement. The main character, John T. Unger, falls under the spell of a very rich family, failing to recognize their empty rhetoric as anything other than luxurious and eloquent. As the story progresses, the audience realizes, this "fairytale" doesn't really begin with a "Once upon a time"; unfortunately, it was more like "back in hell, an evil man with an obsession for money was born...". Braddock Washington, the man in the family (and from hell), uses a series of cruel lies to cover up his paradoxical treasure: a diamond so big that its useless to the economical market. Clearly, he thought he was Moses, because he tries so hard to become a "God" using his "princelike" status (if you know anything about Moses, that would ultimately summarize him: a prince turned God). At the end of the story, the real "Moses", or "God", pays his retribution towards Washington, ultimately turning him back into the place he was born and destined to be. And now, everyone can agree that the "pink elephants" that release an elephant into the room can definitely lead to a karmatic disaster.

Now look at the largest diamond in the world, the Cullinan Diamond. Not so attractive anymore is it?