{"id":10071,"date":"2016-03-30T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T12:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=10071"},"modified":"2016-03-30T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T12:49:08","slug":"7-harsh-realities-of-life-millennials-need-to-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=10071","title":{"rendered":"7 HARSH REALITIES OF LIFE MILLENNIALS NEED TO UNDERSTAND"},"content":{"rendered":"
Millennials.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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They may not yet be the present, but they\u2019re certainly the future. These young, uninitiated minds will someday soon become our politicians, doctors, scientists, chefs, television producers, fashion designers, manufacturers, and, one would hope, the new proponents of liberty.\u00a0But are they ready for it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Time after time, particularly on college campuses, millennials have proven to be little more than entitled, spoiled, anti-intellectual brats who place far too much emphasis on feelings and nowhere near enough emphasis on critical thinking. To the millennial, words are cause for the creation of safe spaces, alternative ideas must be stifled, and anything they perceive to be a microaggression\u00a0is enough to send them spiraling into a state of mental distress.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time millennials understood these 7 harsh realities of life so we don\u2019t end up with a generation of gutless adult babies running the show.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Your Feelings Are Largely Irrelevant<\/h5>\n

Seriously, nobody who has already graduated college cares\u00a0about your feelings. That means that when you complain to your boss because your co-worker mis-gendered you, he\u2019s probably not going to bend over backwards to bandage your wounds.\u00a0Given feelings are entirely subjective in nature, it\u2019s completely unreasonable to demand everyone tip-toe around you to prevent yours from being hurt. The reality is that people will offend you and hurt your feelings, and they won\u2019t stop to mop up your tears because they shouldn\u2019t have to.\u00a0<\/strong>Learning to accept criticism, alternative viewpoints, and even outright insults will make you happier in the long run than routinely playing the victim card.<\/p>\n

2. You Cannot Be Whatever You Want To Be<\/h5>\n

This is a comforting lie parents have started telling their children to boost their morale in school. Unfortunately, millennials are now convinced it\u2019s true, especially as society has now decided to push this narrative as well.\u00a0The reality is if you\u2019re 17 years old and still can\u2019t figure out basic division, you\u2019re not going to be a rocket scientist. If you\u2019re overweight and unattractive, you\u2019re not going to be the quarterback\u2019s prom date.<\/strong>\u00a0If you lack fine motor skills, you\u2019re not going to be a heart\u00a0surgeon. It\u2019s okay to accept that you cannot be whatever you want to be. In fact, once you accept this, you\u2019ll be able to focus on the things you can be \u2014\u00a0the things you really are talented at.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Gender Studies Is A Waste Of Money<\/u><\/h5>\n

You heard me.\u00a0While some millennials taking useless degrees will claim they\u2019re beneficial for teaching or research positions, the reality is that they just put themselves several thousands dollars in debt to learn how to be a professional victim.<\/strong>\u00a0While you\u2019re struggling to make ends meet after graduation because nobody who pays more than minimum wage is interested in your qualifications and you\u2019re drowning in student loan debt, be sure to check out the next harsh reality before you start complaining.<\/p>\n

4. If You Live In America, You\u2019re Already In The 1%<\/u><\/h5>\n

That\u2019s right.\u00a0Even though you work at McDonald\u2019s for minimum wage because you got a useless, outrageously expensive college degree, you\u2019re\u00a0still<\/a>\u00a0far better off than the vast majority of the planet.\u00a0<\/strong>Don\u2019t believe me? Fly to Uganda and check out the living conditions there. Fly to China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Iran, Russia, and even European countries\u00a0like Ukraine and Greece, and you\u2019ll quickly discover just how well-off you really are. While it may be cool these days to dump on capitalism, it\u2019s the only reason you aren\u2019t\u00a0already worse off.<\/p>\n

5. You Don\u2019t Have A Right To It Just Because You Exist<\/u><\/h5>\n

That includes healthcare, guaranteed\u00a0income, and somewhere to live.\u00a0Just because you\u2019re here and breathing doesn\u2019t mean society owes you anything.<\/strong>\u00a0Like the billions of people who lived before you, working hard is a better guarantor of wealth and the ability to comfortably take care of yourself\u00a0than begging society or the government to do it for you. Demanding healthcare be a right, for example, is equivalent to demanding government force the taxpayer to pay for it. While that may seem like a good idea in theory, it only leads to rationing of care when costs become unsustainable, which negatively impacts not just your health, but everyone else\u2019s, too.<\/p>\n

6. You DO Have The Right To Live As You Please\u00a0\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0But Not To Demand People Accept It<\/u><\/h5>\n

By contrast, you\u00a0do<\/em>\u00a0have the right to live however you please, so long as it\u2019s within the confines of the law. If you want to cross-dress, smoke marijuana, drink lots of alcohol, have lots of sex, and, yes, even go to school for gender studies, then by all means, go for it. Government should not be allowed to legislate people\u2019s behavior as long as it doesn\u2019t infringe upon someone else\u2019s rights, but that doesn\u2019t mean society isn\u2019t allowed to have an opinion.<\/strong>You don\u2019t have the right to demand people keep their opinions about your lifestyle to themselves, especially if you\u2019re open and public about it. I have as much of a right to comment on the way you live your life as you do to actually live it.\u00a0Your feelings are not a protected right, but my speech is.<\/p>\n

7. The Only Safe Space Is Your Home<\/u><\/h5>\n

No matter where you go in life, someone will be there to offend you. Maybe it\u2019s a joke you overheard on vacation, a spat at the office, or a difference of opinion with someone in line at the grocery store. Inevitably, someone will offend you and your values. If you cannot handle that without losing control of your emotions and reverting back to your \u201csafe space\u201d away from the harmful words of others, then you\u2019re best to just stay put at home.\u00a0Remember, though: if people in the outside world scare you, people on the internet will downright terrify you. It\u2019s probably best to just accept these harsh realities of life and go out into the world prepared to confront them wherever they may be waiting.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Millennials. They may not yet be the present, but they\u2019re certainly the future. These young, uninitiated minds will someday soon become our politicians, doctors, scientists, chefs, television producers, fashion designers, manufacturers, and, one would hope, the new proponents of liberty.\u00a0But are they ready for it? Time after time, particularly on college campuses, millennials have proven … Continue reading 7 HARSH REALITIES OF LIFE MILLENNIALS NEED TO UNDERSTAND<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10072,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions\/10072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}