I am just like everyone else – I have dreams. What makes me different from everyone else is that my dreams and what I wish to accomplish are not the same as anyone else. Ever since I was 10 years old living in the small town of Bellingham, Massachusetts I knew I wanted to go to UCLA. I saw scenes of California on television and in movies and I was sucked into the posh, beach-going, Hollywood lifestyle. I want to be rich, not just comfortable financially but absolutely filthy rich. I want to be in love with someone that I can share my life and my riches with. I love animals and I want to be an animal trainer/handler. So what my dreams come down to are: UCLA, money, love, and animals. I’ve already made some progress on these dreams: I got admitted to UCLA and I have an amazing girlfriend.
As I’ve started to make progress, the harder my dreams are becoming to attain. Because I’m an out of state student, tuition is extremely high. Each quarter I struggle more and more to pay tuition. A lot of people have advised me to drop out because it is too expensive and I will have too many loans to pay off if and when I graduate. I’ve considered this advice and the only conclusion that I can come to is that I could never give up on my dream. I considered not even attending UCLA in the first place and go to college somewhere else but I did not want to live the rest of my life wondering what would have happened if I never even tried to follow my dream. I would rather try to follow my dream and fail than not even try at all.
The reason I want to train/animals is because my whole life I’ve loved animals and I want to spend my life working with them. Ideally I would love to train animals for television and movies. As I’ve researched this more I’ve come to realize that there are very few jobs available in this field and the jobs you do get do not pay very well at all. I know that this interferes with my plan of getting filthy rich but I will find someway else to accomplish that goal.
I know that if I follow my dreams and succeed I will be a very happy person because I will have everything I’ve ever wanted. The reason why no one ever follows their dreams is that dreams are not reality, but I am determined to make my dreams reality.
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