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There are so many unintended consequences to well-intentioned actions. It feels like a game you can’t win.
#CHIDI WAS RIGHT
The Good Place really went with making their new Point ‘there is no ethical consumption under capitalism’ and I respect that
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BITCH YOU THOUGHT
YESSSSSSSSSSSSs
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me
I hope u end up ok
i know you’ll never see this but fuck you. fuck you. fuck. you.
somebody please help me find this:
there is a wattpad (???) story, and i used to see it on tumblr a lot. people raved about it. it was this emotional story and i think it had a mining town or a mine in it?? and something with children?? and it had a very specific title or town name, like you would recognize it from that alone if you knew what i was talking about. and it’s been bothering me for some time and i want to find it. does anyone know what i’m talking about??????
That one friend who takes sneezing to a whole new level.
If this isn’t me….
“White *Privilege is not having to create hashtags like #IfTheyGunnedMeDown
racism kills”
depression: hey no one truly loves you and nothing you do will ever matter
me, doing a test on what jelly bean I’d be while drinking stale pepsi out of a mug: at least im not fucking licorice flavor god could you imagine
Why does being in your early 20s feel so much like only having 5 years of your life left in which you need to achieve as much as possible? why do I feel like I have an approaching deadline for success?
It’s because we’ve had nearly 30+ years of the “young genius” narrative where those people gave actually gone on to shape the world we know today. Instead of treating these people as truely outliers, they’ve become expectation. People are always looking for “the next Gates, the next Zuckerberg, the next person” who’s going to make an insane amount of money discovering an unregulated resource and shaping it to their whim and shaping the culture around that thing.
Then on top of it we’ve had numerous generations who were able to have everything on their adult checklist: House, spouse, kids, job security, career, car by 25.
However, due to entering an unstable economy, uncertain job market, but with technological advancements that afford more flexibility, and creativity for their lives compared to their parents, Millenials are going through another growing phase right after their college years. As many can’t afford the adult check-list that their grandparents or parents did at their age. Millenials are taking their time because they literally cannot afford to buy a car, a house, find a spouse, have kids, while struggling to pay off massive debt while working for companies who either have no jobs or little loyalty to keep them for 30+ years like they kept their parents, when they can find someone “younger, dumber, and cheaper to replace you” (<- my baby boomer boss said this proudly to me).
However instead of sympathizing with the generations they helped cripple, Baby Boomers and Gen Xers who are still in power, sneer at Millenials and Gen Z for being vapid, selfish, lazy, frivolous, bucking the system, etc., because they still hold us to these old expectation. These “‘back when I was your age I had x,y, and z/I got want have because I worked hard’” statements that show a failure to understand that most *are* working hard with a really shitty situation. While choosing to ignore that they helped cripple us, Baby Boomers/Gen Xers, havent realized that times have changed, and therefore cultural expectations should as well.
However there is light at the end of the tunnel: As expectations have failed to get with the times, you can exploit this. Just get through your 20s, and once you’re in your 30s, Boomers and GenXers will naturally assume you have your shit together and will leave you alone. Seriously, the moment I turned 30 it was like a huge pressure to preform was off of me. Suddenly the decisions I made were considered “bold” and “living my best life” when in my 20s, those same decisions would have been met with derision from the 40+ crowd.
I absolutely hated my 20s due to this mentally that I needed to accomplish something significant/hit all these arbitrary milestones that don’t make sense to me to stress over because they were frankly unattainable to me. Now in my 30s, it’s a lot easier to breathe.
So chin up, take your selfies, make your shit posts, stay out late, make your mistakes, take years to find your dream job,do those “extraneous” hobbies, classes, whatever makes you happy.
You have so much time.
oh my god thank you so much?? this gave me much needed peace of mind right now. be my mentor lol
Going even further: my mom is an internationally renowned fiber artist and is asked by quilt and fiber guilds all over the world to come teach. My parents are travelling internationally on her dime at least twice a year now. She has a book coming out, did a TV special and High Art Institutions like the Denver Art Museum are starting to court her for exhibits.
She must have been doing this forever right?
She started quilting at 50 and only started the body of work that’s got her in demand at 65.
Not only do you have a long time for you to work things out, if you find somethign you enjoy, you’ve got AGES to develop it, if that’s something you want to do.
Statistically, most of the millenial generation is going to make it to 100. You think life’s over when you’ve completed less than a third of it? Stay hydrated, eat well and hustle- you’re in it for the long haul and it’s gonna be AWESOME.
