"The Journey of the Westerners"

American dream is a concept that evolved throughout the generation and has been defined in such many ways. People in America strive to achieve their goals but some succeed and others failed. Why Americans continuously aiming for a so called "American dream?" what causes their downfall and achievements? what reasons give a huge number of people to move to America and seek for their career? do these all matter?

American dream has changed over time being less attainable. Americans back then consisted of the earlier generation experienced a different view regarding this term. It’s possibly because America wasn’t struggling terribly like is it now, so the potential of achieving the ultimate goal wasn’t hard enough. And they only had a superficial meaning about it, which is to be happy and live a simple life is already an accomplishment for them.

American dream is the aspiration to be successful which defines your capability to provide and support your own family. It is also an opportunity that every person are eager to grab because permitting them to acquire this is already life changing. The parents successor describes it as a dream is to live better than their parents did.

For some people, their dreams were fulfilled and some withered. The reason behind why dreams withered is because people don’t strive and work hard enough. Perhaps they are thinking that being here without exploring other favorable circumstances would help them achieve it. For those who became outstanding, I believe that they were determined to take risk sometime in their lives and exerted enough effort to accomplish their objective which is to be successful for their own benefit and their family as well. Some of them are people who immigrate to this foreign country just to achieve their dream by giving up everything just to get here and have the opportunity to be successful.

American Dream innovated over the course of history. Most people that are currently living in the United States are now hopeless on achieving it because of the recession that America is facing. However, I still hope that our current or future president could create change that would lead to an affirmative aftermath so that the next generation could experience the true value of American Dream.