Our 'must-have', “Me society” culture is damaging family life as materialism and a must have sense of selfishness become the norm in the U.S... The pressure on some parents to enroll their children in every Elite club and spoil them with technology and clothes to keep up with their peers is just one symptom of a sense of selfishness that has polluted our community in the past decade. And it's not just children who are suffering. Other parents, who are uncomfortable dealing with conflict, will try to smooth things over with material items. But a consequence of showering children with gifts is that they grow up believing they solve all problems and lead to a satisfying and happy life.
Though, I rarely expect everyone to be good and helpful to me, I don’t even expect that people use me for their well being and behave in a manner to make me feel bad or worthless. I don’t expect that people should help us in return for everything we do for them, but we do expect that people would at least notice and weigh our efforts made to help them and not just take our efforts as granted .the best example I can come up with would be holding a door open for some one. Despite this action, I still come across people who are mean, arrogant, egotistical and selfish. Dealing with such people leaves me feeling hurtful and used to a great extent. More than, if one is a sensitive person with a soft heart then such associations might make them hard-to-forget, distressing experiences. One or two such experiences would surely leave me flabbergasted and I would wish to stay away from such people in the future. I really wouldn’t consider myself apart of this new ME Society but pretty soon everyone will be its NO stopping the spread of the selfishness behavioral disease in our community today.