We Were All “Special”
A thoughtsay on Millennials
Born in the crisp Canadian autumn of the early 1980s, a star beamed down and touched the bed upon which my mother lay. It was at that moment a miracle occurred — JJ Pryor came into existence.
Along with around 400,000 other remarkable bastions of the future.
We were Millenials. Raised at birth to be exceptional, memorable, unique, and extraordinary. Don’t try telling us otherwise, or you’ll get 6 dislikes and a blocking.
But why are we so amazing? Why is it that society deemed our generation, above even the so-called “Greatest” one, to be the special class to lead us to the future?
Writing in Generation Me, psychologist professor and often criticized author Jean Twenge has seemingly made a career out of professionally insulting those younger than her.
“We are doing kids a tremendous disservice when we lead them to believe that just because they are special to us (their parents), the rest of the world will treat them this way.”
Of course, she’s a member of Gen X, which I assume stands for eXtra saucy, so who knows?
Another psycho professor, Roy Baumeister, described an education phenomenon in the 1970s where, “the early findings showed that, indeed, kids with high self-esteem did…
