Silly Lil' Diary: The Boomer Mentality and How The American Dream Is a Lie <3

Dear Silly Lil' Diary,

If my manager tells me that "kids don't want to work" one more time I'm gonna flip my lid. Of course kids don't want to work, who dreams of laboring? To me, work is just a barrier I have to cross in order to have money to live my life, and grinding XP is NOT playing the game.

It's a hurtful thing to say to someone who is a "kid," and no amount of "well not you obviously"s makes it feel any better. Ok. Thanks. You'd be screwed trying to fill my position if I quit so you have to say that.

The world is hard enough, is what I'm trying to get at. Boomers were promised a "brighter tomorrow" and a comfortable life if they just worked hard enough for it, and for the most part, they got that. Probably.

 Us "kids" were never promised that. We are told to keep our heads down and be happy with they way things are, no matter how terrifying or unfair they are. Just be another cog in the wheel of the machine that hates you. We have seen how that machine chews up and spits out people; hard work leads to nothing unless the system decides it does (based on how privileged you are), so yeah we don't want to work, not for nothing.

 Everything is so exhausting, and that barrier to living seems to get taller and wider everyday; it took me 3 years to find a job after applying daily, and I only got it because I have a friend who's mom works there (nepotism). Annnd now I can't quit because I'm afraid of not being able to find another job. Yay to being complacent! 

Anyways, to the kids like me out there: please don't give up. Don't take what you're told you deserve, fight for more. You are worth it. And if you're too tired to fight, please rest; don't listen to the boomers. We are gonna make it.