The Me culture

Today's generation has been in all fuzz. The newest addiction now is Snapchat, an app that allows your friends to see your photo and video updates in a jiffy. No string attached, just tap, tap, and tap and you'll know what he or she is up to. I, for one, who has a Snapchat account find this all very enticing, especially with the fun you can do with the different filters and effects. Dog ears and kitty whiskers, anyone?

Welcome to the Me culture, where it's all about the self satisfaction of one person wherever he or she will go. Do I look good? Do I sound good? Do I feel good? It is a culture that siphons the compassion out of the youth so they could only focus on themselves. A post with no likes or viewers is subject to a day's worth of depression as if nobody approves of them and their stature.

I have recently come across kids who love to be on the social media more than I do. All day long their goal is to post as many updates as they can, to talk to many people online and to show the world that they are in stardom of their own little world. The Me culture introduces the act of self contentment where all the agenda is for one to advance. Others will be brought down by acts we would wish of. Hello, crab mentality.

Media analysts say the Me culture has just come to the fore. But I dare say that it has been in existence for a long time already. From where we are, we are used to people serving us everywhere - from fast food to our very own offices. We cannot even stir our own cup of coffee, we ask for help to do it. Want a quick bite downtown, ask someone to buy for you and the list could go on.

Now that a new wind has entered our era, maybe the Me culture could be reduced to a certain level where it will be about us. It is time for us to own up to the mistakes of the past and make do of what we can make in the future. There is no easy solution to a country that we have always dreamed of, even if Duterte (who said change is coming) will be present. We have to let go of the Me in us.

Ghandi was right when he said, "be the change you want to be." So start in you, stop thinking of yourself. There is a step higher than what your own self wants. When we let go of our own selfish ambitions and devote our time for the welfare of others, there is a certain happiness that we could not explain.

And I think that what our new president wants from us. If we are sick and tired of the old government and placed him in the seat for change, he needs our help too. We have to do our part to abide in the law. He is not the answer to change, our own selves are.

Experts say that the Me generation is a result of the post-modern time. I guess we can benefit from it and make a post-modern change, leaving one selfish attribute at a time.