You have to understand that in today's time, we face this weary test where we are perpetually challenged on the things we think, do, say, and feel. This generation is slowly getting worn down and out. I come from the generation that had to grow up way too fast, got introduced to technology so quickly our heads spun. I am from the generation where we witnessed desolation in New York, and a black president in our twenties.

I am from the generation that is corrupt and immature, I am from the generation that makes all the wrong choices, I am from the generation that is insolent and insufferable. At least that's what they say. If you don't know who the 'they' are, that would be our parents, their friends, the whole generation that had it easy and baby boomed the bejesus out of this country before they put on their blue and white collars to get all prim and proper.

I have friends who have gone to college and broken their backs for degrees that are wasting away in some cabinet long forgotten by the demands of entry-level jobs because the positions they thought they would have obtained by age 30 never came and I have friends who just never really fit in to the mold their parents tried to make them into. I also have friends who are very successful and still find themselves struggling to keep their heads up. It's a demographic abomination of the things that our predecessors never wanted for us, it's absolute solitary misery.

Our parents wouldn't know that though, they're too busy chastising our decisions. "Why rent, when you can buy. Why buy, when you can rent, don't you know how much you waste on fast food? Why do you buy organic when it's so freaking expensive, jesus you're a mess." Yes. Yes we are. We are a beaten down bunch of misfits trying to find our place in the world because we were told there would be a spot for us no matter what and it was a bold faced lie.

Now in the eyes of the American people, we are one nation under God. But if you ask anyone you have to fit into a super specific guideline which I failed out of at about age ten. My best friend failed out at about age 17. My other best friend is hanging on by a thread, but may have at one point sinned so hard that that thread is just an imaginary glimmer of hope waiting to suck them into the murk with the rest of us. And because of that we lost faith. Most of us anyway.

Not in God, or anything. Most of us quietly plead for someone to end our suffering, and our misery, the single numbers in our bank accounts. Most of us hope that there is something out there that makes all this worth it, but that too is slowly getting stomped out because we're in such a blitzed rush to find this happiness that our parents demanded we secure, we're marrying right out of college like they did- BUT WAIT! Relationships are forged in swipes, and likes, not good old fashioned long walks like they once were.

So here we are, this suffering generation full of egotists, liberals, lazy bastards, jobless hobos, and all of the other things you have made us almost believe we are. And we are begging for someone to bail us out, to reach us and tell us that everything will be alright in the end, that we will be as lucky as some of our parents and family members, that life will not be this shitty forever, that rent will not be this unbearably high, THAT GAS WILL NOT MAKE US WANT TO WALK, but god forbid we do that because we're just tired.

Do you feel us? Do you hear us?

We're waiting for the day you say 'loud and clear'.