Let me start off by saying that I hope I don’t offend anyone with this article… But then again, if I do offend anyone, then you will be the living, breathing proof of everything I have to say about our generation.
We’re spoiled. We’re a spoiled, inconsiderate, the-world-revolves-around-us generation. I know this is a very large generalization, and I know many, many people who definitely are not spoiled or inconsiderate, but just hear me out.
We grew up and are continuing to live in a time where being wrong isn’t an option. Every thought we have, every idea we express has to be right – whether it is or not. We believe that one day we’re going to do big things; we believe that one day we’re going to make a difference in society; we believe that one day we’re going to be the ones to change the world forever. And maybe we will do all of those things. But right now, here in this moment, we’re only college students living off Easy Mac and coffee, yet we act like we’ve already ended poverty and world hunger.
We walk around with our heads as big as the room we’re in, so when rejection comes our way, we take offense by it. We think that we’re good enough for any and every club, organization, honor society, etc. that’s out there in the world. Some people might call that confidence, but I see that as arrogance. I mean come one. The world has so much out there to offer us – how could we possibly think that we could be qualified for it all? If anything, we’re more under-qualified than we are qualified, yet when we’re told that we aren’t good enough for something, we take that as a bullet to the heart. And we overreact in one of two ways: 1. we become absorbed by the fact that we were rejected like it’s the first time it has ever happened to us or 2. we act as if we were just too good to be accepted by the rest of society.
But regardless of how we react, it’s time we realize the cold hard truth: we’re not good enough for everything. In fact, we suck at a lot of things, and it’s time we begin to accept that and that’s okay. We need to realize that we don’t deserve every little thing that comes our way. We need to realize that we are undeserving, and that’s just the way of life.
It has been engraved in our minds that we are the future and that we’re going to change the world for the better, and we’ve let that get to our heads. Newsflash people: it’s not the future yet. We haven’t done anything to be worthy of praise. There are still too many problems in this world that need to be solved, and the saddest thing about that fact is that one of the biggest problems we need to fix first is ourselves.
