The Crucial Role of Millennials in Shaping Our Future

According to an article on the JourneyMatters blog, these are the seven classifications of living generations, and I personally find them precise.

• Greatest Generation: Born 1901–1924.

• Silent Generation: Born 1925–1945.

• Baby Boomers: Born 1946–1964.

• Generation X: Born 1965–1980.

• Millennials: Born 1981–1996.

• Generation Z: Born 1997–2012.

• Generation Alpha: Born 2013–2025.

Before I continue writing, I want you to know that I tried as much as I could to be free from prejudice. If there still remains any prejudice in this piece of writing, they are unintentional at best. Why does the fate of the world rest on the millennials? Let us take a quick look at the listed generations and draft the highest cluster. It is without saying that both the Greatest Generation and Silent Generation are mostly dead, and if they are still alive, they do not give a smell whatever the world turns into. They bid their parts, and they just want to go to sleep. Baby boomers were the first set of generations to be awarded the distinction for disruptiveness. They sparked a change in the order of world business, which we see continues until this day. We respect them, but with the life expectancy of most of the world’s population steadily declining, this generation no longer has the spine in them that they were known for. So comes in Generation X or, as some people referred to them, the 13th generation. These sets came on the scene accentuating the goal for independence, living at a time when technology began to sprout; they had some form of respect for norms and traditions, but with a juxtaposition of their own definitions. Now, most of them have become parents and tethering into grandparents all they really care about is the welfare of their progeny, and not so much about the affairs that govern the world. Maybe if things had remained the same and events had not accelerated so quickly, there would be no need for millennials to rise up and decide the fate of the world. Millennials are the last connecting bridge between the past two generations and the last two. They are exactly the middle link connecting the grassroots mindset of the Boomers and X with the technological integration and Internet savvy of the Z’s and Alphas. The Millennials are fortunate to have understood the elements of the past and core foundations of the future. Unlike the Z’s and Alphas, bothered more about the affairs of adolescence and fancy allure for fame, the millennials have, on their hand, the very direction the world affairs would continue in. Therefore, rather than being caught up in delirium for fame and recognition, we must decide to do what is right, amalgamate the customs that had maintained our sanity, and ignore the lingering fears of the past generation and the tactless vibrancy of the coming generation. If millennials cannot create and demand a sane world, then we may indeed be a lost generation. Yes, some will quickly want to argue as to the postulation, and while I might agree that it cannot be done alone, considering the multifaceted conditions of people across the world, and that there would have to be a need for a collective effort between generations to address world challenges and create a better future, the bigger onus lies with the millennials.