Volunteer on the Road: Nicaraguan memories, Part I
Millennials
There was a time when I realized that we, as a generation, probably will never be 100% happy. Our education and independence allow us to have such high aspirations that we usually sign up to almost impossible careers, full of obstacles, that will never satisfy us.
We belong to the most spoilt generation in history. They call us Generation Y or Millennials. In particular, to us who emigrated to other countries and meet each other in cities like Dublin, where everybody is just “ passing by ” , in transit to our next destiny.
But in reality, we don ’t realize that it is now that we are living the best years of our lives.
We are those who grew up in abundance and those to whom everything was given. We are more dreamers than realists and our priorities are far away from the ones our parents had at our age.
Buy a house?
a mortgage?
getting married?
having kids?
You must be joking.
And we keep on postponing it while we continue crossing out birthdays in the calendar, because we grew up believing that we are invincible so time is unlimited. We will have time for all of that,
Right?
Experiences move us more than money. But we wouldn't renounce our comfortable lives neither, in which we have achieved all the basic needs so now new levels of needs have to be found.
Our thirst is for living intensely and put all our efforts exclusively in the search of pleasure and personal satisfaction. We are obsessed with finding our passion and pursue it, because of course we don ’t have a mortgage that ties us to a job that doesn’t satisfy us 100%.
It seems we always live with the suitcase half-packed so we can escape, run away at any given moment.
To be continued…
