A problem we deal with as a generation now that no one wants to acknowledge is that society changed drastically AS WE AGED. The society we are forced into is not the same as what our parents had, so no one has advice for how to do things like apply for jobs online or take online college classes. Weāre a generation that was promised a great future so we hit the streets at 18 (or 16) bright-eyed and bushy-tailed looking for jobs or college to find out that itās not as easy as were told it was, and the best advice anyone has is to ākeep trying.ā
Our moms and dads didnāt teach us how to handle anxiety attacks. They didnāt teach us how to get up and wash your clothes despite when youāre suffering major depression. They didnāt teach us about psychiatry appointments or social phobias or what to do if youāre followed to your car. They didnāt teach us how to handle when youāre faced with discrimination for being a minority and thereās nothing you can do to prove it. They didnāt teach us about making job profiles on websites and hoping one of the fifty places you applied for would call you back.
Weāre a generation thatās in the dark because our parents donāt understand how society is nowadays. They donāt understand you canāt walk into a place and demand they hire you, or call back every other day and get hired because they ālike your commitmentā. Nowadays, youāll get a restraining order before youāll get a job with that approach. They donāt know how to handle how our generation because it is nothing like what theirs was, so we are often left in the dark or at the mercy of a swayed guide, one who might want to push you out of your comfort zone for the sake of sending you in the most straight and narrow path choices. Guidance counselors are there to encourage you to go college, get a job and become a functioning member of society. Police are there to protect capitalist interest and hassle minorities to meet quota. Thereās nothing in the books about what to do when you deal with our problems because the world is different now.
No one wants to acknowledge that, though, because in their day you could demand a job and get it. You left high school and went to work and had a steady career. They had kids, they got married, they grew up in a world that wasnāt teetering on another world war and another great depression, balancing on the needle to see which side it fell to first. We have reached critical mass and this world is not prepared for it, and no one has any advice other than ājust call them back in a few days and ask againā or ājust tough it outā. No one has advice for our queer youth, our youth of color, our young girls who canāt go to the fucking gas station without feeling some sort of intimidated. The youth who know, when they look their interviewer in the eyes, are being turned down not due to lack of qualification but because of the color of their skin, or who they choose to love, or because their gender doesnāt match what they were issued by the state.
We live in a crumbling society with no advice to our names. and thatās very scary. So, please, if you know someone in this situation, if you know people in their teens and twenties that are frazzled, emotionally frayed, depressed, anxious, please cut them some slack. We are trying to build our worlds with no guidelines, and weāre a bit stressed and there are days when we canāt even get ourselves out of bed, much less think āwhat am i going to do when my job closes in April?ā āHow will i afford food if my check doesnāt clear by tomorrow?ā āWhere will i live if this place doesnāt call me back for a job?ā
Weāre just a little lost, is all.
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