Slamming the car door, Christie furiously ran away from her silver Lexus into her beautiful white, Victorian home in Los Angeles, California. Collapsing on her oversized waterbed, and struggling through tears, she cried, "Why am I not happy?" This portrait of a discontented life is all too often displayed in the lives of American citizens. In this country, the United States of America, society thrives on the goal of achieving eternal happiness. Our Declaration of …showed first 75 words of 998 total…

…showed last 75 words of 998 total…to modern day pressures on society. As one can see, happiness is individualistic and differs according to a person's ethnicity, childhood, environment, age, gender, etc. The American Dream is not something that can be decided based on one experience. It is the work of a lifetime of finding one's interests, goals, and pleasures. As Art Linkletter once said, "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."