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I get it, I really do. As a millenial (I hate that term, I feel like I'm a tad too old for it to apply, or maybe my personality is just too old because I can be curmudgeonly about things that millenials are supposed to do or be), I understand why the author, also a millenial, wrote this book and why she wrote it the way she did. As a group, we (I'm going to go ahead and use “we,” ugh) are perceived are overly insecure, worried about what others think of us, and worried that time on earth is too short and that we're not going to change the world and that we will be forgotten, having not taken the opportunity to make things better while we were here. I'm not sure if this is an affliction of a millenial specifically, or those who are young, more generally. But those fingerprints are all over this book. I appreciated the author's honesty, but it got a little repetitive after a while.

But I get it. I remember being fresh out of high school/college and wanting to change the world. (I'd like to think I was less insecure than the author back then, but I probably wasn't.) I'd still like to change the world, as a matter of fact, but I'm no longer concerned that life is meaningless if I don't.

There's no doubt that the author cared deeply about other people, that was evident, and that was lovely to read.