Dear super emotional and obviously very wise millennial,

I have one question - what even is an open letter?

An open letter to the boy who broke your heart?

An open letter to Miley Cyrus?

An open letter to pizza?

These are just a few of the countless open letters I've seen literally flooding my feed on every social media platform. This popular craze can only be described as a basic white girl epidemic and it needed to be shut down about last year. Cause I don't know if I can handle one more facet in the obviously worldly spread that is white girl culture.

Choker necklaces and """""good vibes""""" are already pushing me to the edge.

What's sad is that open letters are good things, that are intended for a good purpose. Open letters to government, leaders, corporations. Not the "first boy to break your heart". Which brings up another issues of the subjects of open letters. They've essentially lost their value and meaning. Because how meaningful can "An open letter to my barista" be?

No. One. Cares.

These letters get really personal- about the boy, girl, whoever that broke you heart, cheated on you, taught you how to love whatever in gods name they did or didn't do for you. I can understand why you want to share your experience with the world. Because you are a very important person who's words should be heard for generations to come. And obviously, anyone under 25 has infinite wisdom of the world to write about their experiences like they're the love child of Oscar Wilde and Henry David Thoreau.

And maybe because no matter how many times you say "it has made me a stronger person" in this letter, whoever this it's directed towards still eats you up at night. If it didn't bother you, you wouldn't care enough to write it. And maybe because you can't just have a one-on-one conversation instead of essentially subtweeting your ex-boyfriend/best friend/Dunkin Donuts employee.

I'm sorry to break it to you but open letters are for important events and important people. People that own companies, people who run countries, and world leaders. Not freshman whats-her-name from who cares Middle America that thinks she is going to bring some amazingly insightful thought onto the subject of the boy who cheated on her.

I get it. Feelings can hurt. But we have much, much bigger problems in our world you could be concerned about. Here's an idea- maybe your next open letter could be to legislators against Planned Parenthood.

Or really anything with actual societal value.

But the biggest problem seems to be the motivation behind the new age open letter. These writers know this will get them a lot of attention. That's why most millennials don't smoke anymore because attention is 10x more addicting. It seems this writing format has become a way to just complain about something that you probably went through over six months ago, but you'll tell it to anyone listening.

So next time you sit down at your laptop to spit out another open letter to whoever changed your life this week, ask yourself- is this for the betterment of society? Does my opinion really matter or am I just complaining because it's what I'd rather do than deal with my problems in the adult way I act like I do in my open letters.

If you answered no to any of these questions please, for the love of all that is good in the world, walk away from the laptop.

XOXO,

Reality