As a millennial, I am given a society to face which views me as lazy, social media absorbed, snobby, and disrespectful. As a millennial, I am also forced to prove that I am not those things simply because a few bad apples ruined the whole bunch.
As a high school student, teachers encouraged me to branch out and try new things. Society encouraged me to become a stay-at-home mom and to clean the house. I wasn't supposed to do "boy things" such as hunt and fish; instead, I'm supposed to wear makeup and learn how to cook.
As a college student, my professors tell me to shoot for the moon. Society has told me I'm pursuing a "man's occupation" and I disagree. How can you gender-specify what a man and woman should or should not do simply because of their gender?
As a millennial, I'm here to tell you that although some millennials might not be very positive role models, or who society wants them to be, we aren't defined by when we were born. We will never simply be millennials. We are all different, individual, unique. We have different dreams and aspirations, different skin colors, gender identities, roles in society, and these things do not make us lesser than older generations.
