oh, good old America.

Out of the eight questions we had to categorize, for me "How shall we live?" stuck out the most. I believe life should be simple and everyone should do things that they enjoy doing. Society has everyone thinking life is a competition- who has a bigger house, who has more money, who has more materialistic objects, who can be the best. We talked about the American Dream in class, and how it truly is a dream that very few people can make a reality. After visiting Costa Rica, I was disgusted how we live. Most of the people there live so simply and appreciate every little thing they have. Most Americans on the other hand never stop to appreciate anything and take full advantage of it. We are slowly destroying the planet just to get ahead, and to make money to spend on unnecessary things that we use for a week and just throw it away after it breaks or the exact same thing comes out, but is "better than the last" Now we can't even support ourselves financially without a college degree, and we are practically forced to spend more money on an education that may not even help us in the long run. So my question is, are we really able to live how we want, or do we all just suck it up and go with the flow of society?