What's wrong with Millennials? Part 6 in Current Events

Most millennials feel that they will be paying the consequences for believing their parents and getting on that hamster wheel forever. The level of distress in a millennial is not sustainable. They resort to coping mechanisms that are not healthy. The millennial generation has more stress and distress as a part of their day-to-day life than any generation in history. Other generations were drafted and in wars so this is alarming. On top of this they are shamed and guilted for turning out distrustful. For turning out entitled (which is just a way of them fighting against feeling taken advantage of). For turning out impatient and self-concerned (which they see as common sense in a world where everybody is only in it for themselves). For turning out uninvested and demanding for equality and truth.

The bottom line is that the millennials are struggling. The baby boomer hasn’t passed the baton, so to speak. This is where millennials are told to act like adults but aren’t being treated as adults. They have no actual control in the society that they live in. The previous generation has all the control still and is telling the millennials to grow up. They have three reactions to this “hamster wheel of enslavement” that they perceive:
1) They try to win at that game of the hamster wheel.
2) They get off that wheel entirely.
3) They stand up to the slave master.

The millennials who have succeed did so by going rogue. They admired for going rogue. If you can’t beat the system or win at the system then pull your energy out of it and destroy the damn thing.

On top of this, millennials essentially invented social media. It has a way of reinforcing the millennials shadows. Such as:
- To not form deep meaningful relationships.
- Coping through social media addiction.
- Falling prey to the illusion that they’re the only ones who can’t make it work and that they are the only ones suffering from everything just described because nobody’s social media accounts contain pictures of people getting fired, having student loan debts or getting dumped. It just shows that everybody else is succeeding.

Social media has compounded the millennial wound by saying that everyone else is awesome except for you. This means that millennials are suffering from loneliness and suffering from the shame that they are alone in not being able to make anything work. Millennials are struggling as a result of being stuck in a system they were meant to replace. They have one foot in and one foot out. Millennials must understand the wounds that they carry and seek to heal them so their life is not simply a reaction and so they can step into their universal purpose. Until they heal these wounds instead of being controlled by them they will struggle to create this new society. A new society that the world so desperately needs.