American Optimism

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. My mother put a very high emphasis on getting good grades so that tended to balance out the dream of becoming a millionaire sometimes. Even in high school though I can’t believe how much the optimism kept going. With slogans like “Break down the Walls” and “The Sky is the Limit” I was for sure going to be great and I just knew it. I really didn’t take the tests necessary to get in to college to seriously because at this point in my life I planned on going to Hollywood and becoming a famous actor. Right after high school I would get a job during the summer and work and save enough money to move to Hollywood. With no real plan this was of course bound for disaster. Luckily, by all this commotion of being told that you could be all you want I eventually exhausted all of my routes to extreme wealth and realized that I was going to need a different plan of attack. For me its was the United States Army.
I wanted to give this example of me and the way I thought before to compare and contrast the way things could of happened if I hadn’t chosen a organization like the army to keep me from becoming deviant. Considering the fact that I was already running into to minor problems, because of my sense of not caring. All of the false hope that was put into by society had eventually started to crash by the middle of my senior year when I had realized that maybe my dreams at this point might be far fetched. By this time though my deviant behavior had already taken hold I was drinking at a young age, getting very unsatisfactory marks in citizenship, and my grades had started to slouch when finally I realized that I might not even be graduating with the rest of my class. Although, I still had good grades my citizenship was not going to allow me to graduate until I did community service to...