Disagreeing With My Dad (Just Like Waking Life)

My dad and I are discussing a report telling how the actress Jodie Foster has turned down a very lucrative deal. She was offered $5 million per year for 5 years for doing something, but she has to stay the entire 5 years or give back the money she's already gotten. She has turned down the offer because it doesn't align with her values. My dad is horrified. The idea of turning down that kind of money because she doesn't "like" the project, makes him sick. He insists that this is a luxury of the rich.

I don't agree with him. I tell him I would turn down the money if the job included going against my values, try to point out that maybe what's wrong with the world (and the economy) is that money has become more important than other values. He tells me I'm too young still to understand the importance of the security money can buy you, how that's more important than anything else. As in my waking life, I am 40 and have 2 children, but still he thinks my way of being in the world is childish, naive. He doesn't say it, but I know he thinks I'm just a "silly girl" with too many book smarts and not enough hard knocks.

Note: I usually love my dreams for the escape they provide. This was too close to my waking life to be very much fun.