Past generations, and even some Millennials, really enjoy hating on Generation Y as a whole. We are not thankful for all they've done for us, and we don't apologise when we should. Maybe we have been a bit rude. I think it's about time we said "Sorry" and "Thank You" to them.
I'd like to start off by apologising for the load of nothing I've done as a millennial.
I'm so sorry. Sorry for studying to get a good transcript. You always told me that my GPA matters so heavily for a job and life, even though it's expensive and stress inducing to an often unhealthy level. Sorry for putting in so much energy to learn as many languages as I can outside of school. You always told me that English is all you need, since it's the only language you speak. Sorry for taking up a job at my university to do biomedical research to leave a lasting impact on science and engineering. Sorry for lobbying in my local and state governments in favour of green bills. I had no idea that environmental and public health were such worthless matters. Sorry for consuming media not from an American background. I didn't know that it's only okay to listen to music or watch shows and movies from a white Eurocentric origin. Sorry for starting at an expensive university where tuition and fees amount to nearly $60,000 per year. You hiked up the costs of education and living so much, and finding a paying job is just a little difficult. Sorry for our reliance on modern technology. Maybe we should learn to be more independent, so I'll throw away my laptop and your life support. Sorry for making noise about issues that I feel strongly about. Maybe if I just be quiet and keep at my work, things will get better, even if it'll kill me in the process. I'm expendable.
I also need to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you've done for us.
Thank you so much for everything. Thank you for the stock market crash in 2008. That really taught me how to balance work and school, and how lazy and entitled we truly are in trying to stay fiscally above the water. Thank you for starting a war that has lasted over a decade and giving rise to global terrorism. That really showed us how to toughen up and know who the real enemy is. Thank you for imprisoning a quarter of the population and having a predatory prison system that dwarfs every other country. I'm so glad that my taxes are going into keeping a pothead off the couch and out of the kitchen. Thank you for keeping institutional biases intact. Learning how to succeed in spite of my race and sexual orientation make me so much stronger, and I really appreciate the extra boost thanks to my gender and socioeconomics.
But most importantly, thank you for being an all around better generation than ours. Clearly, all of your problems and this country's problems stems from us millennials. How dare we make the assumption that our opinion matters or trying to make suggestions. Thank you for giving us this country that's been in it's poorest state since the depression and expecting us to make it work as if it were new. It might teach us the importance of not relying on obsolete ideologies.
But in the end, I hope there are no hard feelings. You'll be gone in 10 years, and by then we'll have figured out how your mess of a machine works, and fixed it. Sorry for being us, thank you for being you.
