luckyladylily:

solarpunkarchivist:

quasi-normalcy:

taliabobalia:

when millennials were first heading into high school and college there was a huge trend in news stories about how stressed out our kids are, how their backs are getting messed up from carrying so many books, how they’re sleeping less and doing more school work, and how we should do more to help our kids have the childhoods we had because our kids are falling apart from stress and being forced to be more productive than kids should be. but then once millennials started hitting the workforce all the news was about how millennials are lazy and narcissistic and entitled lmao you were real concerned about us until you found out a 23 year old is more qualified to do your job than you

That’s because at some point in the middle we stopped being “their children” and became a bloc of terrifying outsiders with foreign values and little regard for what had been their established cultural norms.

I’d forgotten this but you’re right. I think it started earlier though, it started when we started out performing them on exams. Then suddenly all our schoolwork was easy and we were being rewarded for just showing up.

I personally believe it started when it came time for the supposed pay off.

We worked hard in school. As teenagers, this was supposed to pay off in respect. Instead we were told that we did not deserve it because we were a generation “raised on participation trophies”.

As college kids it was supposed to pay off as superior education opportunities at lower personal cost. Except the exact opposite occurred as education cost soared. The excuse this time was because “we were lazy” because we couldn’t put ourselves through school on a summer job like our parents did.

As adults entering the work force it was supposed to pay off with better and more fulfilling jobs. A fucking joke if I ever heard one, and the excuse this time just straight up said “millennials are entitled! They think the world owes everything to them!” as if we had not been ground into the dirt our whole lives by adults vicariously living through the accomplishments of their children, pushed to the breaking point on the promise that we would someday reap the benefits that never came.