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Millennials Were Told to Wait All Their Lives: Now We Bear the Cost
“Wait your turn” was a good platitude in kindergarten, not obstructing an entire generation after the turn of the millennium.
There’s much to be said about some of the more pernicious childrearing methods Millennials bore the brunt of from their Boomer parents. Having grown up in an unstable household with an abusive parent and an enabling parent who romanticized the past far too much, I thought that the fatalism imposed upon me — which centered around waiting — was just personal.
All my life, I was told to wait things out. To wait until I graduated high school to have any semblance of happiness and an end to the constant trauma I endured. To wait until I was a bill-paying adult who could vote. Wait until you graduate college and can find a good job (LOLSOB if you graduated in 2008 or later).
Imagine my shock when I found out this was actually structural and my entire generation was being told to keep waiting for things.
But it’s not just the hardships of school bullies, antagonizing teachers, and adult supremacy we’re conditioned to wait out. It’s also the good things in life, the…
