“We are the helpless, selfish one of a kind. Millennium kids that all wanna die.” My generation (Gen Z) has normalized death to a point where we have all become scary cryptic. Life doesn’t hold the same value it did generations before. What used to be a time for hope and fun is now a time of teen suicide. Whether it be being the guinea pigs for technologies effect on the young mind, our political situation or the fact that the threat of mass extinction has been looming over our heads since we were toddlers we all wanna die. Now hold up. I don’t mean actually committing suicide but joking about it. We’re just so used to death, the threat of it is all we really know. We’re helpless to it because we are but children and although there are AMAZING activists out there we are put in a tough spot. The simple truth of the matter is we wont have a life like our parents, if we have a full life at all. Not everyone is cut out for activism, not everyone is cut out for caring about something so much. Cut to our escape, phones devices are a place to hide from the world. A safe haven where nothing is expected of you and you can finally live care free. Both of these crippling evils have so annoyingly coincided with this generation. Some chose to take a stand others pretend these horrible things don’t happen. To put it simply for those who don’t feel the effect of past generations mistakes; Imagine being forced to clean up someone else’s mess and have that dictate your entire life and your children’s and grandchildren’s. What can you do but avoid it or fight for it. I honestly hope people learn to feel life while its here, to see so many people who are so privileged yet so poor when it comes to things like the literal will to live or even seeing a point in our lives. its truly a sad thing.
With that I am led into my next section, selfishness. A quick effective example of this is; once I was in gym/health class and there was this mentality that was HEAVILY put upon us of, put yourself first, and yes self care is important but teaching kids who already need to learn some compassion that they are #1 is the most ludicrous unhealthy thing I have ever heard. We’re hopeless and selfish because all we do is take care of ourselves things like work are thoughts led by personal gain instead of giving. its about things like earning the most money or popularity and even whatever easiest. Honestly I thought this post would be a long one. But its short and simple, my generation is wack. As children we were born into a world on the verge of extinction the knowledge that we might be the last generation is so scary especially for a child, and the worst part is the world is so controlled by corrupt politicians hope is something that people very understandably lack.
Speaking more personally I’ve chose to make myself aware of things happening in the world. Sometimes I do think, does anything I do really matter if its all gonna end? If there IS no future generation who cares about what I did then what does anything I do matter. I mean we’re named Gen Z for heavens sake, that on its own insinuates we’re the last.
If there are future generations I hope they can learn from us. Learn to not be selfish and consumed by the bliss of easy escape. For the time being all I can do is sit back and see my own generation evolve, and as sad and confused and all round weird my generation is I feel it to be both a curse and gift to be a part of it.
As a final FINAL note this entire post was something I’ve been meaning to do for a while but I couldn’t properly put all my thoughts in an organized enough way to write about it with any hope of making sense. But today I listened to a BEAUTIFUL song that touched my SOUL.
As I listened to it I felt like I’d finally found a song to represent my generation. It put into words what I could not and inspired me to do this. It is truly beautiful and catchy. It conveys a message that you should really take the time to think about.
At some point I might break down the lines of the song things like “cause at this rate of earths decay our worlds ending at noon so can we all just move to the moon ?” But I just needed to write this post now because FINALLY I could.
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