The art of being a millennial
For those of you who don’t know, a millennial is considered to be anyone born between the years 1980 and 2000. I was born in 1995, and this means that when I was born, the average millennial was already 15. Pretty large gap for an entire generation, I know. The generation before us is referred to as the Generation X (Gen X), which is why the millennials are also known as Generation Y (most people know us only as that, “ Gen Y kids ”). But, unfortunately, a lot of journalists, psychologists, and other Gen X people refer to us as “ The Worst Generation ”. Why? Because they attribute to us a few stereotypes, thus diminishing our role in the world and the way we choose to live our lives. To name a few of those stereotypes, they call us lazy , materialistic and cynical , they claim we only know how to take selfies and we have no idea how to bond with other people, we cannot survive without technology , we will bring down the economy by not sett