Phil DeFranco said it best in a vlog last month.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbT7GSFMfBQ
Generation Y truly is an overly self important group; focused entirely on how things effect them with no vision for the greater good. We spent so many years in school being told we are special and some day we'll all grow up to be astronauts or the president. Which is essential bullshit because who's going to scrub toilets if everyone is flying to the moon. We use Email, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, foursquare, etc to broadcast what we are doing and rarely bother to acknowledge anyone elses existence in these mediums unless it directly affects us. We walk right past homeless people as if they don't exist. We believe everyone else is stupid if they don't agree with our point of view. Our relationships burn out because they don't fit the high school romantic comedy movie plot we've been sold by Hollywood for our entire lives. We become easily defeated because we were never asked to try harder or told we failed. If our parents beat us we'd threaten to call CPS as if they didn't have a reason too. Mine should have beat the crap out of me and more often.
It's only at almost 30 that I'm able to appreciate just waking up alive, having a skill people are willing to pay me for, having an amazingly supportive family, and opening a fridge full of food. I'm becomeing more aware of others around me. Their well being is more and more important to me now. Possessions mean less and less. My relationships mean more and more. I'm becoming fearless with my feelings. I'm no longer affraid of rejections. I do anything I can to own the way I feel in hopes its contagious. I wont bend on my principals no matter the dollar amount or the popularity it will gain me. I feel like I can do my part to unwind the selfishness and entire generation has spun into a huge web of bullshit. How focused are you on your self?
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