So many young people call themselves millennials, but the definition ranges from different sources.

Google says a millennial is a person who was in his or her 20s by the year 2000. But Lindsey Pollak from lindseypollak.com found that they are aged from 18 to 34 by the year 2015. Forbes didn’t have much to add to the subject, only to say each generation is different from the previous. (Thank you Captain Obvious.)

In all honesty, is it really fair to have millennials at such a large age gap? Personally, I don’t know anyone born in the '80s. My parents were born in the late '60s and my older friends were born in the '90s. I surely couldn’t tell you anyone who was born 2005 or later.

Now, there are all kinds of relationships between people and I am just one person so there could be plenty of people who resonate with others all across a large time frame. I just believe that those who were born between the year 1989 and 1999 have experienced a completely different world than those around us and we are the ones growing up in the 2000s.

We were children in the early 2000s and now we are in our 20s as young adults. For those that were born in 1982 they were young adults by the year 2002. They were out of high school and starting their lives so they didn’t get to grow up with these rapid changes they were already happening. So much changed between that time and it was critical for us to adapt with our particular timeline of growing up; that makes us part of two worlds, the old times and the technology takeover.

I was born in 1995, the middle of this time, so I have fewer memories of what growing up in the 90’s was like but I still have the nostalgic feeling when I remember being able to watch cartoons on Saturday morning and then going out to play for the rest of the day until the sun went down. Then during school, it was a privilege to go to the computer lab and do the most basic computer programs and play with our Tamagotchis that probably died after a week.

Boy bands were the rage, rap music was at its prime, and Britney Spears was the Princess of Pop. We had to wait for AOL to load and couldn’t use the phone at the same time. Calling your crush and hanging up was still a thing and sending notes that were folded like origami was the ultimate test.

Researchers say that the generation lines get fuzzy after a while but I can clearly see the definition between the 90’s kids and those around us. We know how to work the technology but we relish that the kids now don’t get to experience playing in the dirt with your friends and being free to run around the neighborhood rather than staying inside and playing video games all day. Granted most of us spend our time playing video games anyway especially with our ultimate dream of Pokémon coming to life but that’s beside the point.

We are the ones who are starting these social changes. It is our time to change the world for the better. Those who are older than us think we have no idea what we’re doing but those younger than us see us as the spark to a global change. We are the ones who are being called “crybabies” and “sensitive” but in reality, we just are tired of being cruel to others. As a whole, I believe our generation is ready to do what is necessary to create the equal playing field. We just have to figure out a way for those around us to see the pain and hurt they have caused. A millennial is the generation for change.