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The art of being a millennial

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         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

5 Things no one told me when I moved on my own

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I only moved on my own a couple of years ago, and when I say “on my own”, I mean I moved in with my boyfriend. Now, don’t get me wrong, while it is a little bit easier to move in with someone, it is still a huge change of scenery, habits and, most of all, view on life.                             1.  Buying groceries is more complicated than I imagined Who thought that the simple task of buying groceries could become such a horrifying chore? When I was young, my mom and dad were so organized and precise when going to the market, that the whole ordeal would only take them about an hour. However, when my boyfriend and I started shopping for food, we realized that we had no list, no meal plan, no clue where our “usual stuff” were placed in the shop and, most of all, we grossly underestimated the costs. This is how, instead of spending roughly an hour in the supermarket, we spent double that (and then some), we were exhausted from all the different choices ( should we buy