Millennials

Many of you may have seen the TIME Magazine cover about the Millennials. Well if not here is an image off to the right. It calls us lazy, entitled narcissists, and says we still live with our parents. I am here to review the cover only for I have not purchased the magazine yet. Though I am sure it is somewhat redeeming inside, I will circle back to it later in a later post.

By the way don't you love that in order to read an article bashing so many people my age we must pay a couple of dollars to do so? Wonderful. .

Get this I took TIME Magazine's Millennials quiz and only got a 35%. Bah.

So to address the title page before I even get started on the article. I am not narcissistic I can guarantee that. I even took a narcissism test (I hate spelling that word) and got a low score. You can check yours here. I mean I do have my bouts of I will conquer everything, but it's not like I actually think I am going to rule the galaxy one day... probably. 

Next! Or rather first... Lazy.. am I lazy? I am not going to lie I have been staring at a wall, not a TV, not a laptop but a good old wall for a solid hour debating on taking a nap or not. Now this does sound lazy, but I just ended my College semester and have now begun working. I clean apartments after the college students move out for summer. That invloves cleaning their rooms, tiling, carpeting, carrying furniture from one floor to the next, landscaping, and so on. You want to know what I cleaned yesterday? Sewage. Today? Vomit. I think I deserve to take a nap considering I am off work. Don't get me wrong I have bouts of laziness  but who doesn't? Is that not what society as a whole has been working towards?

~Fun Fact time! Products such as vacuums were invented to decrease the time spent on cleaning the house or properties, but it had the opposite effect resulting in more time spent on cleaning. Crazy right? ~

Finally, the big one. Do I live with my parents like Joel Stein says I do? Well... that's kind of a complicated answer. I live in my family home by myself. So no I don't live with my parents, or anybody for that matter. My parents divorced and both got a place, and one wants to screw over the other and thus kept the house that I now live in. Do I pay for anything? You're dang right I do. I buy a lot of my groceries, cleaning supplies, pet foods you name it. I even get my bank account raided by my parents at some points so all in all no I don't live with my parents.

That's 3 for 3 Joel Stein. You were wrong on each. I guess you would say I'm a "special case" but we all know where you pulled that answer from... Your butt. I said it.

 Maybe Mr. Stein you would be a little more understanding if you didn't have job security in this economy why my generation has been passed a dying torch. Maybe you would be a little more understanding had your childhood be infinity linked to everyone everywhere with an internet connection. Maybe you would be a little more understanding if your generation was taught by broken hands and blackened hearts.

The ascension of my brothers and sisters of my generation should not be plagued with a line of bodies behind, but with justice and a world of good heart ahead. Our generation should not stand upon the shoulders of crude corrupt men and women who have spent the world to save a measly buck. It should not stand on the shoulders of broken governments and broken people. But that is the card we have been dealt, we stand upon the shoulders of filth and stolen opportunity as all have before. 

You say we are narcissistic? Maybe your generation should not have spared the rod as so many have. Beatings are not what I call for to my generation, but a stern and steadfast system of morals which lead us to a more peaceful and pure society not founded on religious judgement or atheistic liberties, but on an accepted moral code allowing for the co-existence of all who which to continue forward in a quasi-harmonious states (as much as there could be one). Your generation failed to instill the moral codes of decent   a decent mankind. You failed to pass the torch and left us to fend on our own thinking we could control you, and if we could control you, then all would probably fall beneath our charm. With your high divorce rates, children of broken hearts rose from the ashes. You created the beasts that some of us are today. You were Frankenstein and we are your monster.

We are products of our pasts transgressions, of their failures, of their weakness, and you and I should all be afraid of what is to come. Like a breeze striking the dimming flame upon the torch we pass, our society can only be strong if the torch is rekindled and strengthened. 

You entrenched yourselves in the present, Stein. You failed to realize the present is ever fleeting, and the future is where we must live. Your generation was greedy like the rest, and have given us a broken world with a system full of kinks and knots. Do not excuse yourselves from the part you have played in the shape our lives. 

You call us out on living with our parents? Have you seen the economy? My generation has stepped out into a world where unless you have a pieces of paper saying that you have survived and education system, and that a university vouches for you, then you have a very little chance in succeeding. Those degrees take massive amounts of time and effort to get. It is no walk in the park, and the system has grown much harder since your day, Stein. A college degree is no longer a luxurious item. It is a requirement. 

These people living with their parents, many have few choices. 

The classes I have seen, many are designed to make you fail while robbing you and you blind. I attend a course where the professors tell you that there is a 40% fail rate as if we are only a statistic and not individual people hoping to achieve a dream and pursue a life of greatness. Meanwhile TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS are being taken from our pockets a year and placed in a broken system.

Those that do survive and exit college in hopes of finding a job, only realize that economic conditions will not allow for such things at this time. So these now out of school, in MASSIVE debt men and women are forced to find smaller jobs that in no way can pay for the debt that they have fallen into. AT THE SAME TIME the elder folk as well as the rest of America have to take those same jobs because they are now falling to unemployment. So these out of school, in debt young adults must compete for jobs with an outrageously large amount of people. So many turn back to their parents, for many these were steadfast rocks that seemed fool proof to the economy. And thus they move back in to minimize the increase in debt. How can you make that sound wrong? That they are trying to stop the break future piece by piece. By moving in with their parents they are setting themselves up for the future. They are planning for the future, and not staying in the present. The sure as heck is better than half of you Stein folk.

My generation is so young and has yet to show what it can do. Before judging and condemning us, why not wait and see what we have for you? You see those problems happening with our world and our politics? That's your generation, and while your generation screws around and flounders in constant repetitive lapses in judgement mine is growing. Try not to screw that up. 

So excuse me Stein if I got your message wrong, because I am responding to what you put on the cover. But I don't have 5 dollars to spare. right now, as many of us are, I am low on money. $5 dollars doesn't seem like a lot, until you have to decided between dinner or clothing. And that's where I'm at. So sorry I couldn't spend a quick buck on your magazine article to see what you really meant, but I better things to spend my money on than you.

Welcome to the real world. This is our world, and I hope and pray to god and all things that are good that we do not leave our children in the pit of hell that our mothers and fathers have left us, for it inexcusable and evil to be so caught of up the present that your children must mop the world of your mess. 

Live for the future, for that is all we have. The past is behind us, the present is ever fleeting. But the future always looms ahead, never ending, never relinquishing it's might. 

Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2013/05/03/3603311/body-found-in-south-atherton

~I have not edited this version yet but I still wanted to share it so I hope you don't mind. If you do, oh well.~