By Lyndsie • 3 Comments
Millennials get a lot of flack about being entitled, selfish and self-absorbed, spoiled, and all sorts of other twaddle that really doesn't apply to this generation, not as a whole. Are there some bad apples? Yeah, there always are, and the truth is that every generation will always complain about the generation that comes after it. Take a look at what this generation really cares about, though, what they fight for and how they fight for those things. I'm standing up for millennials not just because I am one, but because we're all tired of hearing certain things when really, they just aren't true.
Millennials are told we're stupid, naïve, and ignorant all the time, usually when we're speaking out against the majority. The funny thing is that this is also the generation who gets made fun of for going to college and getting buried in debt in the first place.
You know what, this one might be true – because, since the moment we were born, all we've heard is that the world is ours and we can have anything we want. Know who told us that? Our parents, our teachers, our mentors – people older than us. From other generations. Oops.
We don't. We can't get jobs with our expensive college degrees. Everyone wants experience, you see, but they don't want to hire us so we can get experience in the first place. It's a shame experience doesn't grow on trees.
We're often told that we do nothing. We work for nothing. We know nothing about hard work. That's a pretty crappy thing to say to anyone, and also, it's not true.
That's probably also why everyone tells us to get off our lazy asses and go work at McDonald's or something, I don't know.
We do, some of us. And we hate it. Do you think any young adult has ever wanted to move back in with her/his parents?
We hate hearing this because we fear it. Millennials crave independence. The majority of us don't want to be dependent on anyone.
The thing is, we're trying. All the time. We're trying to grow and learn and be better – but growing is a process, you know.
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There are millennials who want it all, right now. They want everything at this moment. They're impatient. The thing is, this is often combined with the assumption that none of us are willing to work for anything, and so the vicious circle just continues.
We are. So are older generations. Everyone's difficult to deal with when no one tries to understand each other.
The older generations make us feel anxious, too. I mean, this is the world you guys left us, after all.
I can't actually argue with this. Some of us are self-involved. However, we're also involved with the world at large. I mean, there are high school students – high school students! – taking videos of the moment when they tell someone else they're beautiful. That's gorgeous.
We are. This is how we communicate. You can laugh, but we get shit done on social media. Yes, there's a lot of fake social media advocating that never goes anywhere, but there are also people getting serious shit done.
Are we, though? Again, this is the world we were given.
Oh. Maybe this is how we're making everyone else poor. SORRY WE DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY!
We do. We respect the traditions that make sense for us. When traditions don't make sense for us, guess what we do? We make new traditions.
It's because we don't have any.
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Boo on you, I don't see Ernest Hemingway sitting here.
We are. Everyone is. No one's an expert at life. But we're learning, baby.
Are there any stereotypes or stigmas attached to your generation that you absolutely hate?
