Me: Becoming a Cosmic MicroCelebrity

Time magazine's "The Me Me Me Generation.  Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who still live with their parents.  Why they'll save us all," is a fascinating article.

This article stretches the range of millennials being the most narcissistic populated young people in history, and yet the most positive.  They are pro-business, and will think think think before they do.  So this makes them pragmatic.  Yet they have been allowed to grow up with communication technology that involves communicating among their peers, family, fans or followers with a sense of self-esteem that was instilled by their baby-boomer parents.

I have not grown up as a millennial; however, being creative, positive and enjoying the tools of communication and social technology, I have adapted to working in a digital world by acquiring technical skills that allow me to work from home, or remotely.

If our world is to become one that fosters more creativity, more transparency, and more positivity, then  millennials are showing us the way.   Consider this.  If our world begins to base itself on "needing approval," by people who think and question, could then this mantra could begin to interrupt dominant destructive systems that have destroyed the environment or the social order?  If the millennials world is flat; that is, if there are not just several leaders, but every young person is a leader, wouldn't this have the potential to take down destructive governments or corporations?  The article did not address the destruction of our environment, nor the ability to build a sustainable civilization.  Imagine the children of the millennials:  children reared on positivity, being more open and accepting, yet also know that they can make a difference, the feeling of importance.

I see myself reflected in the millennials mirror.  I grew up very narcissistic, and yet that transitioned into being of service to others.  I saw my parents break social boundaries with their career and marriage.  My father was twenty years older than my mother.  My mother was incredibly brilliant and managed to go to college at eighteen years of age on a scholarship.   They adopted two children.  I believe the next step for me and the next generation, is how we are going to steward this precious earth and resources, and that includes taking care of each other, not just ourselves.  So maybe we will enter the "me and you" generation building happiness together.

 The Me Me Me Generation