The Pie and the Dream

The Pie and the Dream

Everyone wants to be successful in life whether it’s their educational, social, spiritual etc. sometimes we tie success to where we live and the standard of living of others around us, many persons exclaimed “Guyana is too hard”, “life sucks in this country” and leave to go to another, to make life “better”, many times at the expense of their families, good relationships, peace and health, while other stay in Guyana and make life what it ought to be. This begs the question, is it a problem with the Guyanese pie that they cannot get a bite of? Or is it their willingness to work hard for it? Is it the possibility of the American dream? Or the opportunities it seems to offer? This blog is determine to highlight the high and lows of those that eat the Guyanese pie and the Advantages and disadvantages of those that seek to go after American Dream. 

Victoria Public Road Front

The digestion process- I was born in Guyana, bread in a small village on the East Coast of Demerara named Victoria, the first village bought by the slaves back in November 1839,  then Victoria grow through its challenges and the confusion of political parties, after the death of Forbes Sampson Burnham, Victoria has seen little development toward sustainable resources, and the village suffered as a result of their affiliation to the Peoples National Congress (PNC) party and disassociation of the People Progressive Party (PPP), but despite Guyana is a highly politicize country and the village has felt the effects of such, still many people rise to become what they have dreamt of taking their share of the Guyanese pie and distributing it to their families who have passed it on from generations to generations.

In my opinion it is the determination of those that know what they wanted and went after it, that live to tell the successful stories today, similarly if persons who see the Guyanese pie are determine to taste it and to let it digest where it will, then be able to do good, for sure they will achieve the nutritional benefits and the properties it has to offer. 

Guyana has natural resources beyond its citizenry of 799,613 can use up, yet still https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+live+in+guyan&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab guyanese find themselves poor and not having enough to eat on a daily bases, struggling for jobs, and a proper education. While many people look to the government as the reason for this dilemma, I’ll suggest that they take a look again and examine the power of determination and perseverance, despite I was born in a village derived from slavery and treated differently by political parties, still, I was able to be successful and I am now a University student, something many other young men only dream of, not that the opportunity is not available but how many avail themselves for the eating of the Guyanese pie, too many sit and wait to be served, this is a buffet style country, serve yourself.

The reality of that dream- Scores of Guyanese leave their homeland where they claimed they cannot make it, to go to a place that others claimed they are making it, but are they making it? many at the expense of their health, self -esteem and patriotism, what is funny though is that those that are clamming to make it are coming home to enjoy it, it being less in many cases than what their counterparts hav e achieved with less than all the juggle they did to get theirs, in those countries, as a matter of fact many leave those country to come back home to live on the “backs” of those that never chase the American dream. I think it is call a dream for a reason. Many never wake up from that dream.

It’s a fact that many are there illegally as well others seldom make it and have a success story, when we match the Guyanese pie to the American dream, does it matter which one you believe in since you have to work for both? The equation equalizer is, which one are you more likely to have?