Millennials. From a millennial’s point of view. Part I.

This will be a long rant. If you start reading, please don’t quit midway.

I’m 26. An IT Engineer. Working at a start-up. And I’m a millennial.

Foreword: This WILL sound offensive to some. Maybe. Maybe not. Taking everything with a grain of salt is advised.

We’re millennials.

We’re worried about the correct grammar to be used in long posts where we have to sound intelligent in a rant. We are also the same ones who don’t shy away from using/abusing a language to use words like ‘lyf’ instead of ‘life’ and we make acronyms for every fucking thing. Seriously, WTF.

We’re here to make our Instagram game strong, and our Facebook & Twitter feed witty and interesting. If you can’t make that picture from the event good, was that event even worth going? If your friends didn’t see your check-in from that trip, did the trip ever happen?

You say you don’t want to go to the meet-up because you don’t feel like? Or are you too lazy to even socialise IRL ( in real life ) ? Oh, you’ve anxiety ? After this great discovery, have you tried to do anything about it ? No? Oh, so you don’t have time ? Oh well, who has time for self-improvement.

Did you just mute the call from your parent, so that you aren’t disturbed while you’re catching up on the interesting lives of the people you see on Netflix ? And how will your best friend know that you’re having issues with your relationships when you’re constantly trying to avoid meeting her so that you don’t have to confront real issues?

We’re Millennials.

When was the last time we “howdy-ied” our neighbour and asked them how they’re doing? Also, remember the troll who commented on that YouTube video and got our attention? And we spent a good 30 minutes trying to come up with an explanation to teach him who’s the boss and who’s right.

Let’s go back to going to your ex’s Facebook Wall and Instagram feed and scrolling endlessly, instead of addressing & resolving issues with your closure. How about, for once, giving some real thought and substance to a relationship you want to build for life & not “until it feels right”. Also, let’s not forget how quickly your feelings change.

You’re drinking more than you know you should be, you’re unable to put that smoke down, and you’re fucking miserable at controlling that shitty food you feed yourself because it pleases the tongue, and unfortunately not the body. You can’t eat good food at expensive places ? You’re broke ? Oh, did you not just get the latest iPhone and renew all your music and video subscriptions ?
Are you broke because of your shitty decisions or because your parent never had to put you through making you think about monetary decisions until you left for college?

You are sometimes unable to comprehend the gravity of how this dopamine-mining instant gratifying world of social media and marketing is, not-so-subtlely, changing the way your mind is working. And that’s okay. You’ll know when you know.

How about how habituated we have become to watching everything through the filters that we can’t recognise something without it, or are even too scared to look at it without the filters?!

And what’s the deal with blurring everything except yourself in a picture? How is that picture supposed to tell someone that you went to the Buddha Stupa, when all there is in the picture, is you. You?

We’re Millennials.

How you make New Year Resolutions every year about the same things and fail miserably every year. And how you don’t put in any new efforts and still expect a different result every year!? How?

We’re constant brands, we love Apple, we hate Apple. We pay for the Prada wallet 20$ more than the one selling for cheaper price on the street even if it’s for the same quality.

We’re judging people by their music and movie choices. We live our days through talking about other people, and mostly shit; when we could have been doing so many things we put on our to-do list, that we, very preciously keep updating on our expensive phone & never tick anything off.

We want to call ourselves “wander-fucking-lust” and never even want to leave the comfort of Pizzas & free Wifi.

We’re Millennials.

We’re the ones who will coerce people into accepting alternate sexualities and gender-conformities, because it’s the new norm now and was not 100 years ago. In the next 50 years, we’ll also be the one’s who will be disgusted by how a woman will want to marry a dog, because she loves him. It’s very close to how our grandmas don’t really understand why that girl would want to marry that other girl.

We find ourselves breaking inside day-by-day, time by time, and we fail to address it, until the moment when it ABSOLUTELY needs to be addressed, or else it will burst out with fierce fire that will destroy everything. Whatever happened to self-confrontation ?

Our attention span has lessened so much that we barely are able to pay attention to anything at all. Oh wait, did my cell phone just “ting”?

We want to find the meaning of life, without even putting any special effort for it? Meaning of life? Us? Are you fucking kidding me ?

But wait…

We’re Millennials.

We are the ones who’re creating the tomorrow that we want to live in. We’re talking and trying our best to make a sustainable future for the next lazy generation, that won’t even segregate their trash.

We’re building rockets. Mocking Trump. Creating new ways to educate the today’s child. Freeing education with volunteering. Buying bitcoins.

We’re taking that solo-trip seriously to reflect on our problems. We’re going backpacking into the deep jungles of our minds with Yoga & meditation. We’re seeking help when we know we need it.

We’re standing up for justice, voicing our opinions and expressing our gratitude towards life, liberty and pursuit of the fucking happiness! We’re embracing the day as it comes by.

We’re working our asses off to pay off the student loans and working two jobs a day to provide for the younger sibling when the parent won’t. We’re doing breakthrough research in DNA and medicine & helping find differently abled peeps get to experience life differently with prosthetics.

We’re spreading equanimous love.

We’re Millennials.

…to be continued.