In my world we are steady, successful, adventurous, wannabe intellectuals, rational and opportunistic. In my world we value goals, over achieving, and careers that lead somewhere, oh yes, and the 'somewhere' is already planned. Because we believe life can be planned to a great extent, its many steps can be contained and imagined within our minds. We think we are, we know we are, elite.

In her world there are short term goals, very short term, but ones with the longest term consequences, like marriage for example. There is no hard plan for life, but there is a soft one, to stay close to home, to have a home, to have girls night out with friends from highschool. They marry at 25, 26, they happily expect a child the next year, and maybe another one next.