Society has made much progress since my parents were my age. There are still, however, struggles that millennials face that our parents didn't experience at our age. Here's a list of obstacles, struggles, and questions millennials have that other generations before did not at the age of 20.
1. Waiting for my show to buffer
2. Waiting for my Spotify commercial to buffer
3. Encountering someone I kinda know on Tinder and not being sure if I give the a courtesy right swipe or what
4. $3 gas
5. Accidentally double-tapping while 6 months deep into someone's Instagram
6. Accidentally tagging the wrong person
7. Battery life
8. Someone ruining the ending of "Orange Is The New Black"
9. Losing my Snapchat Streak
10. Having to live in my family's basement because I can't afford a place to live
11. The gun in the new IOS update is a water gun
12. Remembering to go on private for Spotify so my Facebook friends don't know I've been listening to showtunes for 5 hours straight
13. Having journalists write articles on why we don't eat cereal or buy diamonds
14. Not being able to afford diamonds in any sense
15. Having a few decades of history added to my curriculum
16. Not being sure if I should enter this inner-lip tattoo trend
17. Not being able to afford gentrified areas where my parents used to be afraid of getting shot
18. Having to sell my soul to afford my Bachelor's
19. Having to find something else to sell for my Master's because it costs more
20. Intimidating clowns wandering college campuses
21. Brexit
22. New, weird health trends
23. Watching "Spongebob" crumble in quality in front of my eyes
24. Being like 4 for the 2000 New Year's Eve because it was probably the best New Year's Eve ever in existence and I can't remember it
25. Bees dying
26. People uploading embarrassing pictures of me
27. Read receipts
28. The Californian Drought
29. Peanuts aka peanut butter going extinct
30. Why there are so many successful cupcake based television shows
31. Why "American Horror Story" keeps having subpar seasons
32. Why my patronus is a grass snake
33. Why Rose didn't make room for Jack on the door
34. Or take turns
35. Why JT had to get stabbed in "Degrassi"
36. Why Drake had to get shot in "Degrassi"
37. Not knowing which browser tab is playing music
38. The Westboro Baptist Church
39. E. Coli breakouts in major fast food chains
40. The 2016 Election
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