A Non-Millennial Writes an Open Letter to a Millennial who Wrote an Open Letter Criticising a Millennial for Writing an Open Letter Criticising a Millennial for Writing an Open Letter

So here’s what happened. Nicole Silverberg wrote an open letter to Stefanie Williams who had written an open letter criticising Talia Jane who had written an open letter to her employers and who was then subsequently sacked.

It’s all a bit embarrassing and unbecoming. So I thought I would take the bait and jump in with an open letter which is not criticism but just a few obeservations and a few secrets which will save us all a lot of time and effort.

You see the thing is, Millennial is just a word. I never quite know who is a Millennial and who isn’t, especially as people who are well into their thirties seem to be hanging on in there in this demographic by their fingernails. We also have things like Generation Z, Generation Flux (an attitude not a demographic or age group) and Generation G.

So don’t worry about these words. Life is a paradox and getting older is the resolving of these paradoxes.

So be yourself, but also know that you are like a drop of rain. On its own, on a leaf, a drop of rain is a beautiful thing, but it’s delicate. But when a drop of rain enters the ocean, it may lose it’s identify, but in finding wholeness it has joined the throng of other raindrops to become mighty and strong.

Life is a continual struggle between whole and part, identity and difference. And it is also a process whereby when you stop being a Millennial, you will find little bits of your body that have these distracting and nuisance little aches and pains which just weren’t there in your twenties.

Really, all those Instagram photos of you doing yoga on dangerous rocky outcrops will soon be a hazy fond memory, so take as many as possible before everything starts to click and creak with every bend and wobble.

(Just as an aside, before Instagram and Facebook young people did travel around the world and things, with gap years and all. We just don’t have so many photos as we didn’t have digital cameras. But we did all this stuff nonetheless as you can see in this photo of me at 19 on my round-the-world trip, here at the Grand Canyon. But as far as I can remember no one was doing yoga poses at the edge back in the day. We just sat there and smiled).

So enjoy life without judgement. Absolutely discernment is necessary, but rather than criticise always seek out those who are wiser and more intelligent than you. Some of these people will be older, but you will need discernment as believe you me, non-millennials don’t half talk a load of old nonsense at times as well.

But most of all, remember, your life is a river and there is no escaping the flow downstream and in a few years time there will be more young people and they will be cool and you will be not.

Be good, always try and speak as positively about others as possible, and it’s like that picture on Facebook I saw. Always be kind in your judgements since everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

Take care