Dear people of the Baby Boomer generation and other small scattered generations before us,

We have noticed a growing trend with you all, name calling, if you will, of people younger than you. Specifically, the mockery of millennials. You're giving us titles such as the "me me me" generation or the "worst generation yet." More often used than these titles are words such as lazy, entitled, selfish, and dumb are used to describe us. So after hearing you all, we millennials have a few questions for you that we would like to ask in the most respectful way.

How dare you call our generation, call me, the "worst generation yet?" What grounds do you have to say that this is so? Why do you insist on saying that all young people act like the one you saw in a facebook video? Weren't you young once too?

I, personally, am a proud millennial. I work hard and strive to reach my goals in life. I am in college attending a university for a degree in English so that I can go on to give to the next generation the gift of literacy. I work hard and study to make my university's dean list. I work a job. I am a part of organizations on my campus that work to give others better lives. I volunteer to tutor at local high schools. So I gotta say, I don't feel that I match the stereotypes given to today's young people and neither do a lot of the young people around me that are doing the same things a me. Actually, come to think of it, most millennials that I know don't fit the mold that is forced upon them. It's the adults.

In the 2013 graduation commencement speech given by Stephen Colbert at the University of Virgina, the topic of the "me me me" generation was brought up. Colbert said "So self-obsessed - tweeting your Vines, hashtagging your Spotifys and Snapchatting your YOLOs - your generation needs everything to be about you. And that's very upsetting to us baby boomers because self-absorption is kind of our thing. We're the original 'Me Generation,' we made the last 50 years all about us. We took all the money. We soaked up all the government services. And we've deep-fried nearly everything in the ocean. It may seem that all that’s left for you is unpaid internships, Monday to Tuesday mail delivery, and thanks to global warming, soon Semester at Sea will mean sailing the coast of Ohio."

Colbert is saying what we all are thinking about each other's generation. We both have faults.

So I guess we don't really have a question for all of you, at least I don't, but perhaps a suggestion. A suggestion for everyone of all generations.

Why don't we all just get over the whole he said she said and try to better what we have now? Build new generations up, support the generations in charge now, and make a better world for generations to come.

With love,

Millennials.