The American Dream?

The American Dream is a very fluid thought. For a suburban middle class family, it might be owning their own business, or moving into a bigger house. For a lower class family in the projects, it much be simply puting dinner on the table. Almost everyone that moved to America came here for a better life, came here to be better than they were before. America is the "land of opportunities." So whether someone wants to go from being a single mother to a CEO of a big company or from a nobody to an American Idol, this is supposedly the ideal place to do it.

But what do I think?I think the American Dream is to keep dreaming. Everytime people reach a certain plateau, they look up, see someone else living on the top of the mountain, and keep reaching to get to where they THINK they want to be. Everyone is always watching everyone else, wanting to be everyone else. Keeping up with the Joneses is the American Way.

Thats not a bad thing though, is it? To dream, to look foward to who you could and should be. Bettering yourself isn't bad, is it? Only if your stepping on other peoples, or maybe even your own, feet to do it. But what do I know? I'm in college so I can graduate, and try to live my American Dream.