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[NARRATOR] Let's look in on America's perfect family - the Joneses.

Why, just look at their amazing life!

Safe, secure jobs.

Social respect and admiration.

A growing family.

Home ownership!

New model cars.

And a gourmet kitchen.

Yes, the Joneses are living proof that if we're willing to follow the same trusted path...

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What! How did we ever buy into that myth?

Since we have been young, we have been indoctrinated to follow a prescribed formula.

You have to get a degree...

...and get the best job that you can.

...the white picket fence...

...the big-screen TV...

...2.5 kids...

...the babe, the boat, the bucks. The job, the six figures.

Work for forty, fifty years...and then retire.

I did all of the things that were expected of me...

...at the expense of my dreams.

Every Monday I would walk on the beach, and put my iPod in, and wonder what was wrong with me.

I was like: I live by the beach. I have a great job, all this money. I'm so lucky right now.

And yet, I'm freaking miserable.

And I was on the road 3 to 4 days a week.

And I just remember thinking: I did not sign up to be a single parent.

Every single day, I would come home and I would

tell Betsy, I'm like, I cannot do this anymore. I cannot do this. I can't do this anymore.

When you're climbing the ladder and you get to the top

and you realize you have it leaned up against the wrong wall.

I didn't even know what the right wall was.

And I'm 32 and it, it feels like I should have that...figured out.

These people DO live these lives of quiet desperation. They WISH things were different.

They need Life to shake them and say,
"Wake the F[bleep] up!"

"This is not the way you've got to live!"

"There's something better out there."

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♪ [10,000+MILES] ♪

It's only when you start making choices for yourself

that you can live your OWN dreams
instead of the American dream.

I'd be happy, but I would not know what it would be like to keep this happening.

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I don't know what's around the corner for me.

I don't know what's around the corner for me.

I have never been so fulfilled not knowing.

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