I turned 20 not even a week ago and upon turning 20 I also tuned into a few other things. I'm “a real adult” that people for whatever reason have decided is worthy of being listened to now that I've been around the sun a few dozen times and that in and of itself has made me respectable. It also officially put me in this group of people that is a real fire storm right now, millennials.

Not that I wasn't one at 19 but now I'm a 20 year old millennial and that really puts a bad taste in peoples' mouth so I guess I should apologize for that first! Sorry about being born a serving long enough for you to sort me into a group of people that I may or may not share the same worldview as. I’m sorry that some people in that group are under-educated and overly confident. I'm sorry that once upon a time someone told people my age that their voice matters and for some reason…they believed it. Now not only am I a twenty something millennial, I'M A GIRL! I didn't have to wait as long to be put in that category I got put there JANUARY 19th 1997 and if you are in fact a person who lives in a country with freedom of media and assembly (sorry about that) you have probably noticed that other girls that fall into the category are really shaking things up! Marching, making signs and saying things that make your grandma embarrassed, they are taking a stand. The weird thing about that is our whole country is founded on people who got super tired of the way they were being treated so they stomped off and threw a fit about it, and honestly people died. But for some reason you put a cellphone in someone's hand and dress them up in skinny jeans and a dirty band tee and all of the sudden their right to protest is a little more frowned upon. That reminds me of two more things I need to apologize for..

Let's start with technology because that's pinned on us. I'm sorry technology had advanced so quickly in the past few years, making it easier to connect to information and people that aren't right in front of your face via “snap graham” and “insta tweet”. I personally don't have a single degree much less one in any kind of science so I don't really know how all these advances are my fault but I do know that it's my fault for understanding how to use them and in turn, using them. I also need to apologize for the way we dress. Now I'm partly with you on this one, we could probably clean it up a little but a long time has passed since girls were expected to wear a dress and young men had to get haircuts. Sorry about the entire fashion industry and the choke hold they have on the world. I’d like to take a second to apologize for our dietary habits, and while I know this seems a little excessive honestly I've had someone of an older generation come up to my face and get on to me because I have a milk allergy and apparently everyone my age “has something wrong with them AKA being a picky eater” or maybe I should apologize for food allergies? That seems reasonable.

I’d like to apologize for our utter lack of love for our country. I’ve been in countries where a lack of patriotism is treated as a crime! I've seen awful awful things like children having the idea of corrupted government beat into them and I also see what you see when some bratty American kid refuses to take their hat off or respect the man we’ve elected president. But, not everyone has seen that. Not everyone can have their eyes opened to the amazing opportunity they have been handed simply for bring born in the right place. And I'm really sorry for that. I’m sorry that in order for this country to stay this way we are going to have to keep asking questions and advancing and dressing weird and protesting and yelling and securing these rights that we so willingly seem to throw away. I’m sorry for all the participation trophies I got when I was little that I don't remember asking for but I know I got them somewhere down the line and that's fed into the entitlement that we’re all so famous for. Sorry. I'm sorry for the disappointment that you feel when you look at the small hands you’re passing the country into *i’m talking about my hands not Trump's* and mostly I'm sorry that when you look at me you see all these awful things and you cant look past it and give us a chance. I'm sorry that I'm receiving a 30,000 dollar education and I'm doing my best to apply things I'm learning in class to make changes to the big world around me. and in changing things I have to do things differently that not everyone will agree with. That's just a side effect of change. I'm sorry for running so passionately towards the calling on my life to share my faith with others. Yes me, a women, telling others about the true savior and Lord. And I'm sorry that I've decided that loving what I do is more important that being paid a ton for what I do.