Untitled Thoughts #7

My generation Z lives in a time that has lost meaning. The fantasy of Disney tales, love, romance, academic successes, college, friendship, work, and jobs were not a promise. And what we were expected and assumed we would follow had changed before we got our chance to try.

What are we to do in a time where meaning is lost, where college degrees, which were once hyped up and hailed as a ‘golden ticket’, are reduced to an honorary medal that we will pay for our lifetime?

Where is the love that praised only Romantic Love, placed Marriage on a pedestal. I know the answer, it has changed.

Say what you want about my generation being soft or weak. Hey, maybe we are. But why is that bad? We are living in the generation that our ancestors made for us.

This Era of life is the fastest it has ever been in terms of technological advancement. This gave us the world in our hands.

You gave us the world in our hands.

And we are reacting to it. And we are overwhelmed. We are living in a world where the iPhone that came out that year is called ‘old and outdated’. And we are required to keep up.

We are living in a world where skills that were once useful three years ago, are replaced by AI, A world where there are a multiple of different apps that do the same thing, but everyone uses a different one and you are expected to know how to use them and are looked down on when you don’t. A world where you are exposed to many different voices worldwide, and it drowns your thoughts. A world that wants you; to sell to you, and kills those who can’t.

A world that makes you believe it is illegal to have your own thoughts.

So, I apologise if I’m soft, I apologise for my anxiety, for my depression. I apologise that I am not able to handle the day as you used to. I apologise for not holding my feelings in and pushing through like you do. I apologise, I do.

I am not strong, like you, brave.

But I’m not spineless.

Even with my roster of mental illnesses, I get through the day. I may break down after, I may think about dying once or twice or plot a way to escape. But I get through the day.

And in a world where everything is different and ever-changing. I think being able to do that much, is amazing.