What comes to mind when you imagine the ‘American Dream’? A new shiny car, a massive renovated home, perfect straight ‘A’ children, while all those are comforting, does it honestly make you satisfied? Is your life so sad that a new Range Rover can fill that sad, lonely hole? When it comes down to it, you begin to realize that it’s not material items that can pull your life together, it’s your experiences and who you’re surrounded by. I bet being selfish and knocking others down to pull yourself up pays off, but while you’re all alone with your new Michael Kors watch, I am surrounded by the people and life I have envisioned for myself. Money has become such an enormous priority, that people are losing sight of all moral values. If your life
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Life is not fair, bad things happen to good people, and people’s priorities change. Money can’t buy you friends, money can’t buy you genuine comfort, money can you buy the materials that temporarily fills that gap, until the next iPhone comes out. Truth is, the American dream doesn’t exists. When people describe it, you only hear of the things money can buy. Happiness is deeper than what you own. Education. You hear this topic discussed frequently, the cost, the hard work, the stability as an outcome, but how many people can sincerely say they didn’t graduate with a heap of debt. There’s this debate about how minimum wage should be raised so that teenagers can have a decent chance at a stable, easy …show more content…
These standards are nearly impossible to fulfill. Generations before us have implanted their standards on us when in reality they’re not realistic at all. I think the ‘American Dream’ has nothing to do with what you own or how successful you are, the ‘American Dream’ differs from person to person, what might be comfortable to one person may not be to another person. If you’re happy than who cares that you can’t afford a Mac air book. Some people find joy in their dog, and that can just make all the difference for them, but some people are a little more materialistic than that, they need items to make them feel whole. Everyone is so caught up in what people think they’re losing sight of all moral values, nobody cares about the next person. Our economy is so self-absorbed and I think that creates a major complication in our country. The poor are being over-taxed, the rich are being under-taxed, they’re debating whether or not to withdraw pensions, social security, and the amount of debt we are in is jaw-dropping. Newsflash, debating to withdraw social security is absurd, not everyone is as fortunate to be able to work, people are ill, you can never escape that, but extracting what they live on is just downright unbelievable. Their life already sucks, do you really want to add more? See, nobody care about the next person. Everyone is so self-absorbed that as long as they’re
Life is not fair, bad things happen to good people, and people’s priorities change. Money can’t buy you friends, money can’t buy you genuine comfort, money can you buy the materials that temporarily fills that gap, until the next iPhone comes out. Truth is, the American dream doesn’t exists. When people describe it, you only hear of the things money can buy. Happiness is deeper than what you own. Education. You hear this topic discussed frequently, the cost, the hard work, the stability as an outcome, but how many people can sincerely say they didn’t graduate with a heap of debt. There’s this debate about how minimum wage should be raised so that teenagers can have a decent chance at a stable, easy …show more content…
These standards are nearly impossible to fulfill. Generations before us have implanted their standards on us when in reality they’re not realistic at all. I think the ‘American Dream’ has nothing to do with what you own or how successful you are, the ‘American Dream’ differs from person to person, what might be comfortable to one person may not be to another person. If you’re happy than who cares that you can’t afford a Mac air book. Some people find joy in their dog, and that can just make all the difference for them, but some people are a little more materialistic than that, they need items to make them feel whole. Everyone is so caught up in what people think they’re losing sight of all moral values, nobody cares about the next person. Our economy is so self-absorbed and I think that creates a major complication in our country. The poor are being over-taxed, the rich are being under-taxed, they’re debating whether or not to withdraw pensions, social security, and the amount of debt we are in is jaw-dropping. Newsflash, debating to withdraw social security is absurd, not everyone is as fortunate to be able to work, people are ill, you can never escape that, but extracting what they live on is just downright unbelievable. Their life already sucks, do you really want to add more? See, nobody care about the next person. Everyone is so self-absorbed that as long as they’re