Jared's+Reflection+on+Success+in+America

In America one is successful if one has money. The more money you have the more successful you are. You can see it everywhere, young Americans idolize celebrities. Almost all of the celebrities in our culture are successful artists with exorbitant sums of capital in their bank accounts. Americans grow up wanting to be like them, because they’re rich and famous and that’s what you are if you are successful. But there is definitely another facet to the American Dream. I believe that America wants to achieve great things; we want to solve world hunger, make world peace, cure cancer, and save the planet. The danger is that most people push off that facet because they believe it is too difficult and it will take too much time and money. So they end up reverting to trying to accumulate as much money as possible, living a life of excess and thinking that they are successful.