Forgotten Truth You grow up dreaming, hoping, wishing for a bright future A future you're not afraid to imagine A future in which every goal you’ve ever strived for is accomplished Where you’ve settled down, have a great job and live in the suburbs. People whisper about your optimistic future and reminisce about their own Years ago when they discovered themselves and found a new perspective on life, A future they're not afraid to look back on. Though those dreams tend to leave out the reality. The reality where you toss and turn in bed, scared about an upcoming interview Trying to close your eyes and hope for a perfect day, a day which will never come The reality where you stay up each night, until the sky turns from black to light Pondering over missing payments and money you don’t have. Money you don't have because you spent it on your education, an education you need to survive in the world, an …show more content…
Your perfect future, the one which you’ve been imagining for a lifetime. The dream where you travel the world for three years, or become the CEO of an up and coming company, or train long hours everyday to throw a football for millions of dollars. Then the dream fades, like it was never there, and reality sets in and you're still you, still struggling, barely scraping by, but still making it. Trying to keep your tears aside as you call your family half-way across the country, spinning a lie like a spider's web, a lie in which everything is going right, just as it should be. And maybe it is Maybe you’ve realized your passion and embarked on the adventure, but maybe it isn't, and you're stuck, but not forever, just until you figure things out, or life figures things out, just like everyone says it will. The reality of making choices that affect your life, choices that are difficult and unseen to the dreamers eye, choices that could paint or burn a
In actuality what happens when this dream is finally attained? Does the expectation live up to the reality? Or is our imagined facade shattered by what the future presents?
Throughout my life, I’ve wanted to be many things. An astronaut, a princess, a doctor, a lawyer, and at one point in my life the president. Now that I am older and much more mature. I still haven’t decided what I wanted to be. When I first started my high school career, I was terrified. I didn’t know what I wanted to be. So I decided to try new things. I’ve been with choir ever since I was in the sixth grade, so I thought I would give it shot, and try something new. I started to take drama and art. I soon found out, that I wasn’t great at either of those things. I had stage fright and I sucked at drawing. But, I didn’t give up. I stayed with choir, drama, art, and basketball. Now that I am a senior and ready to graduate, I have found out I
Thank you for having us read the tragedy of Willy Loman, The Death of a Salesman. You can work hard at anything, but if you are not passionate about it, you will get nowhere. It reminds me of one of my brothers that didn't realize he was chasing the wrong dream until it was too late. At school he was pursing different subjects, but at home he was passionate about music and rapping. Since he was an exceptional artist, he decided to go to an art school. Soon he realized it wasn't for him and dropped out, and now he has to start over. We must realize now while we still have the time and resources what we want from life and what we are passionate about. If we don't ask ourselves these questions now, we may not have later to consider them.
I have struggled through many years trying to find the perfect career I wanted to do for the rest of my
to have a dream you can fulfill with the hard work you put into but will also have a big boss in
Something I never took into consideration. I remember being so broke that I wasn’t able to drive my car for a couple of days until my next paycheck came. Watching it sit in the driveway was definitely not what I expected. I also had put so much effort into work that my grades dropped significantly and I only passed three out of six classes my sophomore year. I had to retake all the classes I failed to graduate. I had to limit my budget. I couldn’t go out to eat or shop with my friends because I had a car to pay for.
Sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to understand. Dreams have strange concepts that some people do not fully comprehend, especially ones that seem out of range. However, fantasy is an essential component in surviving. Dreams and goals differ, yet are constantly mixed up, confused and misused. The terms are unique in their own ways, have very distinct aspects but somehow still become intertwined. People’s modern goals typically include graduating school, getting a degree, obtaining a job and becoming successful enough to have a decent paycheck that supports all the basic
Although The American Dream has changed significantly from being all about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it is still here. In the 21st century, it may be much more than that and require more patience and extra time to acquire in today’s world (Simon). Matt Cohen, who is an instructor at Indiana State’s College of Business, tells his students that they are sitting on a one million dollar
We all have dreams. Goals and aspirations that one desires, from the age one can think to our dying breath, we all have them. However, there seems to be one recurring “dream” that Americans all have, appropriately titled the “American Dream.” Its basic premise is the idea that all people, no matter their roots, should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work and determination. This was the promise that came with the land. What immigrants believed in, hoped for, and lived to achieve. Yet, recently, people have started to question if it is attainable. Many older people cling to the idea that the American Dream is alive and well, yet today’s young people are realizing that the Dream is slipping farther and
Throughout the United States, many people have trouble paying bills. Many people that enter college are around 18 to 34 years old, and in order to keep a stabilized relation with their money, it is easier not to go to college. “Two-thirds say a major reason for not continuing college is because of the necessity to be able to support a family”(Pew). Another reason that affects students very critically on their finance is student loans. Students leave college with a huge debt in their hands. Because of that reason, more than half say that
“Though dreams can be deceiving…they serve for sweet relieving when fantasy and reality lie too far apart,” said singer Fiona Apple, referring to how one almost always feels disappointed when waking up from an exciting dream. Dreams help escape reality, when what one wants, “fantasy,” is too far-fetched to achieve in real life. Escaping reality also helps when one’s life is not as satisfying as they would like it to be. Either they wish to be different, or they wish for the world around them to be. Anything can be done in dreams, but they are never permanent. They always come to an end, and they seem so lucid when the dreamer is actually dreaming that they forget entirely what real life is made of, making them disappointed and frustrated in
Jazz great Ella Fitzgerald eloquently said, "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." Many know what they enjoy doing, but few people take the opportunity to enjoy their passions and do it as a career. The zeal for what they love means people can spend hour upon hours appreciating and relishing the venture at hand.
As the American dream is defined, a national ideal in which people have a lifelong goal that brings them prosperity, happiness, and or success, it starts with a plan of action that is most commonly taken after high school. For me, my American dream is to major in electrical engineering and to become an engineer at a big corporation so I can make a copious amount of money and be happy. In order for me to complete this mighty achievement, there are many actions I must take.
My dream is to make it to adulthood, making it a destination not tired for the next day so my dream.
All throughout my life I’ve always been at a lost with what I wanted to do. I would see something and become inspired, but moments later my dreams would be crumbled. As a child I’ve always had my fazes, once it was a nurse because all my aunts are in the medical field and I thought it would be interesting as well. Then it was as a criminal investigator, FBI or CIA agent due to my habit of watching criminal shows (aka Law and Order SUV, Criminal minds, and etc.). Finally, I hit a standstill with becoming a Criminal Justice Lawyer, but even then I wasn’t inspired anymore for it was just the easy way out of this indecisiveness. As a year went by everyone asked the horrid question I had been avoiding “what do you want to do in your life” and I