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F ollowing the mad rush of the                   Narcissism Epidemic with a subtitle Living in
              holiday shopping season a lead-    the age of entitlement. It all sounds so famil-
              ing bookstore advertised a clear-  iar but the roots of this philosophy can be
              ance of all calendars. Buy one at  traced back to Genesis 3.
              75% off and get a second one
free – what a bargain. I scanned the counter         The whole idea of a “sense of entitle-
and one seemed to jump out at me. The            ment” has reached pandemic proportions. It
caption on the calendar was “It’s all about      really funnels down to one thing: an atti-
me, all year long because who else would it      tude that “it’s all about me, what I want,
be about?” In another part of the bookstore      what I deserve, what makes me happy and
there were two books, the titles of which I      feel good.” This concept that “it’s owed to
found interesting. The first by Jean M.          me” will influence how I use my free or lei-
Twenge, Ph.D entitled Generation Me de-          sure time.
scribed anyone born from the 1970s
through the 1990s. Along with W. Keith               What is time? It’s the most important
Campbell, Ph.D. she co-authored The              unrenewable resource that we have. Once
                                                 gone, it cannot be reclaimed or relived.
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