45 Millennials Describe What Older People Will NEVER Understand About Them

By Thought Catalog, July 16th 2017

https://develop.thoughtcatalog.com/?p=780279

30. Let me have the dreams that you had at my age, too.

“Remember those dreams you had when you were my age? Let me have those dreams too, please.”

31. Between the student loans, health insurance, food, clothing, basic necessities I barely have any money left to put away.

“That I just want to live my life without worry.

At 26 I am living at home, working 2 jobs, and trying to save up to move out, but I just can’t do it. Between the student loans, health insurance, food, clothing, basic necessities I barely have any money left to put away. I come home from job 1 and just crash for a couple hours and get up to go to job two and get called lazy for doing so. I have my god damn master’s degree and I feel like a kid who decided to skip college and just coast through life is living a better life than me.

And they wonder why my generation has depression issues.”

—FluffyMastr

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Trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.

“You are the only person who gets to decide if you are happy or not—do not put your happiness into the hands of other people. Do not make it contingent on their acceptance of you or their feelings for you. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if someone dislikes you or if someone doesn’t want to be with you. All that matters is that you are happy with the person you are becoming. All that matters is that you like yourself, that you are proud of what you are putting out into the world. You are in charge of your joy, of your worth. You get to be your own validation. Please don’t ever forget that.” — Bianca Sparacino

Excerpted from The Strength In Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino.