Our generation, "The Millennials" is what they call us, we get a lot of crap from all the older generations. Our grandparents tell us that we need to learn how to work hard, and that's our generation's issue. Our parents tell us that we are too entitled, and that's is our issue. We get a lot of crap from older generations even though we are more accepting (civil rights, gay rights, women's rights??), more educated, and more technologically advanced than any other generation before us. We're sick of older people telling us why we suck because they just don't understand what it's like to grow up in this time, right? No, they don't, but I do.
I'm a millennial, and a proud one, but I can't help but to be ashamed by the way some of us are turning out. Since we don't like to listen to the older generations, at least listen to a fellow millennial when I tell you that it's time to grow the f*ck up.
We need to understand and accept that it's okay for someone to disagree with our opinions. It seems like the majority of us have grown up thinking that if someone doesn't have the same mindset as us, then they're wrong, dumb, and ignorant. Instead of promoting what we love we bash what we hate, and it's turning our generation into hostile individuals. Just because you think welfare is an unnecessary handout and your neighbor thinks it's a good, justified system, it doesn't make your neighbor 'a lazy, uneducated liberal'. Just because you think gun laws need to be more strict and your neighbor owns 4 handguns and 6 rifles, it doesn't make your neighbor 'a stupid, redneck republican'.
Millennials, stop getting mad when someone doesn't agree with you, and learn how to have a respectful disagreement. You might actually learn something by listening to what other people have to say instead of automatically shutting them out.
Also, why in the world does our generation get so offended by absolutely everything? A lady could be wearing a polka-dot dress in one of her selfies and someone in our generation would say, 'well polka-dots represent chicken pocks, and white people are more prone to chicken pocks than any other race, and in her selfie she's not smiling, so that means she doesn't like white people. And she's wearing a dress to show her womanhood to show that she doesn't like men. So basically, she hates white-males'.
Us millennials are so involved in social media, that we find a way to get offended by absolutely anything. The Harambe-child incident, for example, none of you knew that those Gorillas were endangered until this story blew up in the media. Suddenly, we all became gorilla-loving/crisis-solving/parenting experts. We were offended that a gorilla was killed, or we were offended that the mom was not charged. How about we educated ourselves on what's going on in the world, and move on. Millennials, stop blowing one news story (that isn't even relevant to our lives whatsoever) out of proportion, and focus on yourselves. You do not need to search social media for something that offends you just so you can voice your suddenly-important opinion on it.
I swear, it seems like our generation is so vain that we find a way to link everyone and everything to something that is negative and/or group-hating. Not everything is about us, guys. Just because one black man killed a white man, doesn't mean blacks are anti-whites. Just because one white cop killed a black civilian, doesn't mean all white cops are anti-blacks. Just because one Muslim committed an act of terrorism, doesn't mean all Muslim's are anti-American.
Millennials, stop bashing other people's opinions, stop getting so easily offended, and stop stereotyping certain groups of people. Older generations can call us lazy, entitled, or whatever they want, but that's not our problem. We need to stop tweeting about what needs to change and actually be the change. Millennials, it's time to grow up.
