A millennial is a term used to define the generation of people whose childhood involved the change from 1999 to 2000. The crazy fact about millennials is how hated our generation is by past generations who see us as spoiled, entitled, and lazy. For some reason non-millennials associate most of us with people along the lines of Paris Hilton and other pop stars. It is my strong opinion that other generations have a distorted view of what it is like to be young today. They think most of us have a credit card in our dad's name, and that everything and anything we have ever wanted was handed to us. Is it true that life has been easier for some of us as American youth than others in the past, yes. Does that make us lazy and bad people? NO. Most of my fellow millennials are dedicated, adaptable, and get a lot of tasks accomplished. We have classes, internships, part time jobs, and a lot of social pressure and anxiety. However where we differ from other generations is that most of us are not in a rush to be married with children by 25 so a lot of our youth is sacrificed to school and low paying jobs and internships to pad our resumes, so that by the time we are in our mid 30's we can hope to be successful. I cannot figure out why people hate us so much and say that we don't have any reason to be upset all the time because we have easy lives. It's truly mind bottling and incorrect. Personally, for a couple of months I had to pause my job/further education search due to a health issue, that when in the diagnosing process I wasn't telling anyone about. So when people asked about my job search I would bend the truth and say I hadn’t heard back from anyone. I had multiple people who were older than me instantly tell me that the reason I wasn't successful in my job search was because I am a millennial and have no idea what it's like to sacrifice and struggle. The ironic part besides the fact that I was and am facing an ongoing health struggle is that I have struggled in different aspects of my life since early childhood. Did I ever have to hardcore struggle with money to the point where I could not eat? No, I can’t say that I ever have, and I am aware of that some people do, and I know I have been fortunate. Despite that fact, when a lot of grown adults look at me and instantly judge me due to their own jealously, making the assumption that I am a brat and a privileged youth, they have no idea what I have struggled and do struggle with. Being dyslexic took me years to accept and academically was a constant struggle, but despite the fact that society sees me as a lazy millennial, I still managed to work really hard and never had to go to summer school, never was held back a grade, and graduated college on time and also planning on going back for a doctorate, and many of my friends all had similar struggles and still did the same, so maybe we aren’t all so lazy. Being gay has and is still a daily struggle that, unless you are also gay and you grow up in a very catholic environment that taught you to hate yourself with every fiber of your being, you have no right to judge and say I have had and do have it easy. Medically, again is another everyday struggle. I am not trying to be depressing; I am just trying to make a point by using my life as an example. As a millennial, I handle many daily struggles that would make some people crumble, but I handle them. My friends and peers all have similarly difficult lives, however we all make strides to handle them and to work towards a better future. The fact is that, yes cellphones, computers and our parents do make a lot of our lives easier than it could have been, however with that being stated, we millennials don't all have easy, charmed, carefree lives. I love my life, but it is not always easy. I’ve had really hard times and I know all of my peers have had hard times. We millennials are not all Kendal and Kylee Jenner, just because we sometimes look to have it all based on our outside appearance; trust me when I say we don't. We have struggles, we have anxiety, and we have uncertainty and we make mistakes. Most of us don't need to be judged by our elders, we do that enough to ourselves. We need to be encouraged and nurtured because, contrary to popular belief, being young isn’t always easy.