Are Millennials Really To Blame For Their Unique Ambitions?
By: Stephen Uba
Tags: Nonfiction, An Injustice, Life, Culture, Millennials

When Millennials are having a conversation, that seems to be going meaningfully well, you usually hear words like “Wow, we really should start a podcast.” Somehow people tend to label millennials as youths that simply just do stuff for the cool sake of validation from society.

Society today has been swallowed up by the Internet, Social Media now owns the constraints of society, the media pages (information), the business pages (finance), the educational pages (knowledge), all these frameworks can be found in the ‘real estate’ of the Internet.

Why should the aspirations of a millennial be referred to as worthless, simply because it has an affiliation with the internet or social media?

Remember the statement made earlier “Wow, we should really start a podcast”. I would give you a few illustrations below on the subtle manners the supposed ‘elders of society’ tend to criticize millennials harshly for making such proclamations or for simply ‘dreaming’.

The ‘Elders’ say that they just feel like passing away time, they relegate the aspiration of the millennial to just fun and reduce the weight of the ‘passion’ to testing the waters.

My question to this conclusion reads thus: If you can label the fully conscious thought of a millennial to just ‘testing the waters’, then what also stops you from labeling your decision as a parent to force your child through college as ‘testing the waters’?

Another selfish point that the adults usually make the mistake of making is when they tell the ‘youth’ or their ‘child’ to be serious and stop thinking like a kid.

My question to this reads thus: Why does the unique ‘millennial’ choice of a millennial end up being labelled as an unserious choice, even when you haven’t cared to ask the millennial the reason and drive behind that decision?

Most of the time, ‘unserious’ ambitions like starting your own eCommerce store, starting your own blog, launching your own podcast, writing your first book, get tossed away and overlooked by the alleged ‘custodians of society’.

They feel that these ambitions are not material enough, but they forget that the main essence and driving force behind great things that transform are not necessarily their ingredients, but the value, value power, value quality they create in the end as ‘finished products’.

Ultimately, I think we are all manufacturing something, but to what good is your product if it contains all the materials but lacks the capabilities to influence, to create value and to drive the quality of lives forward.

You may be so convinced that because you work in a tangible building, have a tangible desk, and open a tangible door to your office, makes your craft more realistic and valuable than your colleagues, friend’s or your child’s ‘virtual ambition’.

Here’s the bitter truth:

The same way you erect that structure, is the same way I erect my website or social media business page.

The same way you open those offices, is the same way I open those web pages or make those engaging posts.

When you open that conference room, I also open up that ‘Forum’ or ‘Publication’ on Medium or any other platform and break my fingers all day just to make it grow.

While you renovate your office areas, I also design my website/social media page with all the seamless navigations for our ‘Traffic’ and ‘Users’.

Those facilities you upgraded your company with (the printing machines, the cellphone system), I just made some upgrades to all the plugins, codes, function php, and integrations on my website/social media page.

The same way you have your customer care on those phone lines, is the same way I have my amazing 24/7 email-marketing team.

That reception you so value because it’s where your customers can be attended to and entertained, don’t forget that I also value the optimized landing pages and funnels on my website, my podcast, my publication, my social media page, ‘My Creation’.

We are all ‘Creatives’ in our own unique way, and we have a lot to contribute to Global Growth. Don’t let anyone water down your relevance because they refuse to adopt new paradigm shifts or refine their judgement to understanding the change, not dictating it.