Long Way Down

I was reading Nick Hornby's newest book (A Long Way Down)and found this part that seemed really relevant to what we've discussed in class, and thought the class might find it interesting.

It's from the perspective a young American guy who's got a job delivering
pizzas in England, and finds himself on the roof of a house on New Years Eve,
wanting to kill himself, along with 3 other people with the same idea.

"The trouble with my generation is that we all think we’re fucking geniuses.
Making something isn’t good enough for us and neither is selling something, or
teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something. It’s
our inalienable right, as citizens of the twenty-first centur