When I hear the term “American Dream”, I think of a large house, nice cars, and lots of money. This may not be the definition of the American Dream to many, but in my opinion it is. For most people, they work hard almost all of their lives in order to achieve a certain level of success. Usually with great amounts of success come large paychecks. Many people look forward to this aspect of being very successful. Many people strive to be extremely successful only for the idea of one day having lots and lots of money. Some people may work hard every at their job or have a career that they hate only for the simple fact that they make a lot of money. It’s sad to say but many people believe that having a lot of money can make you happy and everything else will just fall into place. Even though my definition of the American Dream has to do with someday reaching a level of success that guarantees a large amount of money, our class discussion in class last Thursday opened my eyes to other definitions to the term “American Dream”. I realized that the definition for the term “American Dream” is unique to every individual. What I believe the American Dream to be may be the complete opposite of what someone else considers the American Dream. Some believe the American Dream is just to be doing whatever makes you happy with no concern for ever having a lot of money at all. In my opinion, there is not just one definition for the term “American Dream”. Anyone can have their own version and definition for what they believe the American Dream to be.
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