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Twenge’s book Generation Me as whole was a good book. Her ideas and outlook on our generation was very accurate. We do not get involved enough in politics or anything that is going to change our society. Look at what is going on in Egypt. They didn’t like what was going on with their government and now they are trying to change it, something we do not take part in any more. The more I reads of the book the more I started to see in life that it’s all about “ME”. Not just with myself, but with others too. During a conversation the focus is usually on you and throughout the duration of the conversation a person is normally telling someone else what is going on with him/her.

I feel like a main focus of the book is self-esteem. I am thinking about writing about this and her point that as a generation we need to focus more on self-control and stop building ourselves up just to be disappointed at some point in life. Instead of building people up our society just needs to prepare our children that real life is not easy and full of praise all the time.

I am going to use this paper as a way to try and change the way people think about the self. I understand that the change will not happen over night. It is just the point that preparing our future children is important, and they are prepared and ready that life is not always easy then maybe the depression and anxiety will decline. No one wants to be depressed and if no one wants that then why not try something to change it.