Journal #13 The American Dream

I think that the American Dream today is basically to survive. I know that the economy is horrible right now and people are struggling to live everyday. Money is becoming a lot tighter, people are loosing their jobs, and everyday there is a new struggle that we have to face. With the economy going horribly wrong right now, we have to do the best with what we have, which I think is making people become a lot more grateful than in the past. Once people start loosing things, others realize what they have. The real American Dream if the economy was not so bad would be to make money and become successful. People chase after money. Mainly because money is something we need in everyday life. Even though money cannot buy things such as happiness and love, we need money everyday to survive. The American Dream would be complete freedom. We would not be at war with anyone else if the American Dream were real. We would not have any go away to the war or even to train for the war because we would be at peace with everyone. We would all be equal. The American Dream is where everyone gets along. There would be no criminals, murders, gangs, or bad people in the world. The American Dream is living each day to the fullest because we never know when our last would be. The people would be in good moods every day because there would not be struggles that would make us upset or mad. The American Dream though is simply that, a dream. We cannot reach it because people do not take the time out and realize what is happening around them and make changes. The bad people we have in the world did that to themselves, they do not have to stay that way. War can easily be stopped, we can easily call a treaty. All of the affairs of the world can be resolved, but they aren't. Now we are all suffering from an American Dream, which cannot find the ways to improve its loopholes.