Our whole childhood was shaped by trauma. We were young when 911 happened. We saw the buildings fall. Several years later the economy toppled like the Twin Towers in 2008 when a young man was more likely to be shot by an active shooter than getting hired at a fast food job. It would be dishonest to say that Gen X and Baby Boomers didn’t have their personal hells and trials and tribulations because they did. Many Gen Xers didn’t see 30 because of the war on drugs and Crack epidemic of the 80s. But another thing that made Millennials retreat into a never-ending childhood was social media and inflation like that which we have never seen before in history. The costs of things has risen much faster than wages. Most people have to live with parents or roomies to survive. Food, insurance and gas eat away at whatever is left after paying rent. Health insurance runs about $300 a month for ONE person. The life that we ALL planned for as kids grew further away each year we got closer to turning 30 years old. At 32 I am nowhere near where I expected to be. No jobs pay enough and everyone is trying to be an entrepreneur and content creator. The dating and social media apps have made basic human interaction and connections impossible. People see opportunities for sexual and financial gain instead of other humans. Everything that was good and pure has been perverted and inverted into something else. With all that being said we have to grow up and take on responsibility for our actions and look after each other before our society goes down in shambles. Instead of pointing the finger at older generations we need to model the behaviors we want to see replicated and be the people we want to date and marry.
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