I promise you most of you won’t make it to the end of this article. Most of you won’t even make it through the next sentence. Not even because you question the quality of the article (although that’s entirely possible and that’s OK folks) but because our generation has a problem with paying attention. We are the scrollers, we are the reason not only newspapers are slowly decaying into the past, but traditionally formatted articles in general. Everything is in list form, plastered with pictures (that are slightly blurred because who actually stops to look at pictures nowadays, am I right?) labeled with captions we won’t even read. We are bored easily, with more ADD and ADHD afflictions than any generation before. I once watched my sister watch TV while listening to music, while scrolling through Facebook, and texting. Our generation is genuinely unbelievable, we have videos in the form of vines that last six seconds because if they were any longer we would tune out, Twitter posts that limit you to 140 characters because we can’t be bothered to read any further. Congratulations if you even made it to the end of this paragraph.

In truth, even the millennials' reputation as being the generation of hookup culture reveals us as inherently impatient. We have Tinder because we don’t possess the patience to take the time to meet people in real life or pay attention to those who aren’t ‘swipe right-able.’ Our hyper connected world allows us access to everything and everyone, and there is simply too much to know and do. There is no time to spend reading full length articles about the news or date only one person. We have to be doing everything and everyone at once.

This impatience limits our ability even to take the time to do simple things in our lives, such as take a walk without listening to music or spend a day alone without texting our friends or engaging in the busy life of the rest of the world. We must always be multi-tasking, since we have access to not only our own lives but all the exciting things our friends and acquaintances are doing through social media. It is hard to be content simply taking a day or even an hour off and slow down. Our lives are as rushed as our speed of thought. Thirty-five percent of millennials report experiencing varying levels of anxiety, and much higher than any other generation, as well as reporting an average level of stress as 5.2 out of 10. We might be more connected to the world than any of our forefathers, but we are also the most disconnected. We are involved and yet we cannot focus, hopelessly springing from one thing to the next, if we don't slow down and enjoy our own moments, these numbers will keep rising.

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