THE SELFIE GENERATION

Many of us have heard about Narcissus (Narkissos), the son of Cephissus and the nymph Liriope of
Thespiae. He was a very handsome youth, but wholly inaccessible to the feeling of love. The nymph Commented [WU1]: Wrong use of comma since the next
Echo, who loved him, but in vain, died away with grief. One of his rejected lovers, however, prayed to word group is a phrase
Nemesis to punish him for his unfeeling heart. Nemesis accordingly caused Narcissus to see his own face
reflected in a well, and to fall in love with his own image,not realizing it was merely an image. As this
shadow was unapproachable Narcissus gradually perished with love, and his corpse was
metamorphosed into the flower called after him narcissus. .Unable to leave the beauty of his reflection, Commented [WU2]: Use only one period.
Narcissus lost his will to live. He stared at his reflection until he died.

I was thinking a day at Narcissus,that if he would have invented something in this life it would have
probably been a selfie stick or a telephone with a high-resolution rotative camera.In this generation
people love to make pictures of them self’s. I see many times teenagers stop in the middle of the street
only to update there profile with a new selfie.This comes out of somewhere.I believe that this is caused
by an egoistic ,self-centered,self-loving spirit at work in the last days.Egoism is an excessive focus or
occupation with oneself driven by an inflated sense of self-importance. Egoism is a preoccupation with
oneself yet may be without the inflated self-importance. Egoism also refers to the belief that self-
interest is the motivation for and/or the valid end of all action.People get really crazy when they make
some selfies.I found some very dangerous selfies that people made themselves,for example:

The Bible speaks about it in 2 Timothy 3:2 „In the last days terrible times will come. For men will be
lovers of themselves…” Are people today, maybe stronger than ever, lovers of them selves ? It could
be…

The incidence of narcissistic personality disorder is nearly three times as high for people in their 20s as
for the generation that’s now 65 or older, according to the National Institutes of Health; 58% more
college students scored higher on a narcissism scale in 2009 than in 1982. Millennials (people born from
1980 to 2000) got so many participation trophies growing up that a recent study showed that 40%
believe they should be promoted every two years, regardless of performance. They are fame-obsessed:
three times as many middle school girls want to grow up to be a personal assistant to a famous person
as want to be a Senator, according to a 2007 survey; four times as many would pick the assistant job
over CEO of a major corporation. They’re so convinced of their own greatness that the National Study of
Youth and Religion found the guiding morality of 60% of millennials in any situation is that they’ll just be
able to feel what’s right. Their development is stunted: more people ages 18 to 29 live with their parents
than with a spouse, according to the 2012 Clark University Poll of Emerging Adults. And they are lazy.

In 1992, the nonprofit Families and Work Institute reported that 80% of people under 23 wanted to one
day have a job with greater responsibility; 10 years later, only 60% did.Even in China, where family
history is more important than any individual, the Internet, urbanization and the one-child policy have
created a generation as overconfident and self-involved as the Western one. And these aren’t just rich-
kid problems: poor millennials have even higher rates of narcissism, materialism and technology
addiction in their ghetto-fabulous lives.

Millennials have come of age in the era of the quantified self, recording their daily steps on FitBit, their
whereabouts every hour of every day on PlaceMe and their genetic data on 23 and Me. They have less
civic engagement and lower political participation than any previous group.

What millennials are most famous for besides narcissism is its effect: entitlement. If you want to sell
seminars to middle managers, make them about how to deal with young employees who e-mail the CEO
directly and beg off projects they find boring. English teacher David McCullough Jr.’s address last year to
Wellesley High School’s graduating class, a 12-minute reality check titled „You Are Not Special,” has
nearly 2 million hits on YouTube. „Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can
see you,” McCullough told the graduates. He says nearly all the response to the video has been positive,
especially from millennials themselves; the video has 57 likes for every dislike.
Millennials are interacting all day but almost entirely through a screen. You’ve seen them at bars, sitting
next to one another and texting. They might look calm, but they’re deeply anxious about missing out on
something better. Seventy percent of them check their phones every hour, and many experience
phantom pocket-vibration syndrome. „They’re doing a behavior to reduce their anxiety,” says Larry
Rosen, a psychology professor at California State University at Dominguez Hills and the author of
iDisorder. That constant search for a hit of dopamine („Someone liked my status update!”) reduces
creativity. From 1966, when the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking were first administered, through the
mid-1980’s, creativity scores in children increased. Then they dropped, falling sharply in 1998. Scores on
tests of empathy similarly fell sharply, starting in 2000, likely because of both a lack of face-to-face time
and higher degrees of narcissism. Not only do millennial’s lack the kind of empathy that allows them to
feel concerned for others, but they also have trouble even intellectually understanding others’ points of
view.

The alternative of this is found in Jesus’s words from Matthew 22:37-39 ” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the
Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and
greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.”We as human
beings should concentrate on this two very important issues :On loving God and on loving our neighbor.

Loving God with all your heart means reserving the best of your affection for him. Make time each day
to build an intimate relationship with him through prayer-through conversation. He wants to know you
and be known by you.

Loving God with all your soul means dedicating your life to him. Begin by asking him, “How do you want
me to spend my time, energy, money, and talents? What can I do with my resources to honor you?”

Loving God with all your mind means backing up your passion with knowledge.Begin by asking
questions. Don’t be afraid to challenge him and wrestle with his commands and your beliefs. When I’ve
asked tough questions, I’ve found that God welcomes genuine curiosity and dialogue. In fact, he hopes
for it.Then seek his answers. Read the Bible and find out what the words mean. Listen to the
experiences of others. Take a class. Ask him for guidance. Make an effort to find out who he is. Discover
what he likes and what he dislikes.

There needs to be an authentic love for God that starts with God-oriented affections, desires, and
thoughts, that permeates our speaking and behavior, and then influences the way we spend our money
and how we dress, and drive, and our forms of entertainment.And also a daily learning to grow in this
because we know that this is the will of God.He makes it very clear that he wants “all” of you in this. He
wants all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength invested in your relationship with him and with your
neighbor not in you. More than anything, he craves a relationship in which you are “all in.”

To love your neighbor is also a hard task.Some may find it easy but others find it difficult to love the
white man who works on Wall Street, the black man in political office, the Hispanic woman who’s risen
up the corporate ladder,the Muslim woman who’s fighting for her rights,or the „Tiganii” who lives next
door Some find it difficult to love the foreigners among us.|Maybe you have heard of all this foreigners
coming from Iran,Irak etc.Loving your neighbor doesn’t involve unsolicited lessons in doctrine or
admonishments for not attending church. It involves building real relationships. It involves being a good
example that draws people to want to know more. Jesus didn’t go about stressing doctrine and
disregarding human being, but went about helping people, healing the sick and acknowledging the
forgotten, even doing kindnesses to his enemies. Christ loved people organically, coming to them on
their own terms, in their own messes. Be real. Think of people as people, not numbers for the church
roster. It will make loving them all the easier.

These two are the only cure for the Selfie Generation in which we live.So go on and apply this.This will
fully change your life and your circumstances.

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