“I always tried not to waste my life,” he says, “But all I did was waste it.” Near the beginning of the show, when Biff is talking to Happy in their room, he tells him that he would rather be outside with his shirt on his back, working with his hands. He then offers Happy to come with him to the West to start a ranch together, as Happy agreed with him in preferring to work physically, outside in the fresh air. However, Happy starts talking about showing other people that they are "made of something" and gets caught up in prestige rather than happiness. Biff honestly wants to pursue something that he legitimately enjoys, and so he has an idea of what perhaps the American Dream really means and how one pursues the pursuit of happiness, rather than the pursuit of money. With his statements at the beginning of the story, he is clearly starting to understand how to live a life that is fulfilling to his personal wants, needs, and passions. Biff also reveals that he understands that life is something that can be wasted, and since he has always "pledged not to waste it", he evidently knew that he should seize his opportunities when he could, which perhaps may have partly led to his style of a more extravagant life in which he had difficulty finding roots and a job that he really liked, because he abandoned his passions due to personal, family and social expectations, but at the same time he tried to a certain extent to chase what he sincerely loved in life, causing him to become a wanderer, becoming uncertain even of his own
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