Sweet Dreams

             Dreams have lost their credibility as sacred aspirations that are taken very seriously. Most Americans today live day to day and don't create goals and dreams for themselves. A dream to me is considered consecrated and hallowed. We could call a dream a reverie, an objective, a target, an aim, or an ambition, but any way it is identified, it means one thing. A dream is an idea or circumstance that a person wishes for himself in the future. I create goals gradually for myself, and I believe that it helps form and mold my character. Three very large ambitions I have for myself are as follows: to be successful at the occupation I enjoy doing, and not at what makes the most money; to raise a healthy family; and to move to a big city.
             My future employment is something that I consider to be very important. Formerly, I believed that I only wanted to work where I made the highest salary. I finally realized that money is not as important as happiness; so, I dream that one day my profession will be one that will please me and that will support my family. My job will almost certainly be one that will require me to move to large city. I feel content in a city with many lights and tall buildings, and these cities possess many jobs that would be perfect for me. I believe that I would like to be a lawyer, an orthodontist, or a movie director, because I like working with people, and I feel that these jobs would be suffice.
             My second, and possibly my most distant dream, is to have a large, closely-knit family. After seeing people who don't have kids who have the ability to, I have chosen to put a family on my "goals" list. Although I don't want to start a family soon, this idea is a new ambition of mine. I feel that people who choose not to have children are self-centered. We were put on this earth to have families, and people who have no kids are in most cases thinking of only themselves. The reason I don't want to s...

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