Is The American Dream Dead?

The American Dream Is What People Have Both Died For And Live For.

One Mans Dream Comes True

After the gym this morning I made a stop at my local gas station to buy a pack of gum. Looking up above the register, I saw a Georgia State Lottery Ticket Hanging. It was a Jumbo Bucks scratch off ticket for $500,000. I asked the attendant who won it and she told me that an unemployed hispanic man did.

I live in North Georgia and the Illegal Immigrant population is out of control. At 5am, the hispanic workers line the road waiting for someone to pick them up to earn a days pay. Well this man that one the ticket, got his money and went back to Mexico. I said to the attendant, "That is The American Dream."

"Or is it?"

I think that a lot of Americans have a lottery mentality. It's also called entitlement mentality. The fact is, no one owes you anything. You have to work for everything you have in this country. Most of us know this all too well. The chances of winning the lottery are as good as you getting struck by lightening, twice , in the same spot. Do you waste your money on lottery tickets?

Shattered Dreams

The American Dream means different things to different folks. For some, it's having the ability to own a second home in a vacation location. To others it's having the ability to do what they want, when they want and for however long they want.

For most in today's day and time, the American Dream is slipping farther and farther away. Why? Quite frankly it has to do with putting all of your eggs in one basket.

The days of working for a company for 25-30 years is a long lost fable. Americans are being right sized, downsized and leftsized.

For those who are unemployed or hanging on to their jobs by a thin thread not knowing what the coming weeks have in store, I almost feel sorry, but not really.

You see, we all have choices. Some of us chose to create our identity's and tie them to our jobs. Isn't it strange that when people ask each other what they do, they usually respond with their occupation?

When someone asks me that question, I reply with, " I like to surf, travel, skydive, workout and spend time with my family." You see, I have never been a title or degree based person. Yes I have had big titles and yes I have a degree from a prominent University, but that all means squat.

To some reading this, it may make you mad. Well it should. You have been used and abused, never being paid what your actually worth. Am I right? You are being paid what the job pays. Why is it then, that people get so comfortable living like this.

Take Control Of Your Dream

When you don't have control of your income, you don't have control of your life. When someone else signs your paycheck, your a slave to them. I don't know about you, but I never liked that feeling. It is en-slavery any way you look at it.

Why is it that some rise above this? It comes down to drive.

The American Dream is very alive in my household and it should be in yours too. Take your life and your finances into your own hands. Stop relying on others to depict how your life will be and take charge.

I know it takes hard work, guts and risk to step outside of the norm. I think if people would detach themselves from Title mentality and really dig down deep within themselves, they would discover that they are capable of much more.

Living The Dream, 
Joshua K. Boxer

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