The Millennial Struggle
By: Kurt Anderson
Tags: Awareness, Self Improvement, Patience

The Quest for Patience

patience through the winter

For many of us in this instant gratification era the Art of Patience is nonexistent. The need to feel like time needs to always be spent hustling or conjuring up the next big idea. Going viral is more desirable today than learning a trade that supports your long term future. Some say it’s lack of home training, I believe it’s corporations with an agenda. See for most many of our families were never properly educated on what is really needed to make it through to the next 50 years. They say it’s survival of the fittest and I say it’s survival of the slickest. The one who knows the inner working of the changing economy can control who knows what and how to evolve along side it. If they had taught most of us that a trade was more important and could be used anywhere in the world, most of us would have opted out of 4 year colleges and student debt. Many would have a clearer understanding of the society expectations and careers that best suite the individual.

Instead we’re taught to memorize quick notes for a multiple choice test that generally takes no effort to learn or study. Most tests were open notes through out school, a new form of cheat sheet stamped with the teachers approval. Take a test so you can fight for a position at a hand full of jobs after college. Anyone who didn’t want to be a Peace officer, Lawyer, Doctor,Firefighter etc, was more than likely told there’s no money outside these things. How would our folks and counselors know this if they’ve never done. Not only was this not true but these people lacked the insight and resources to even know their claims were false. If there’s anything this past 20 years has showed, it’s the fact that you can make money doing anything. Things that you could “ALWAYS” do before, it’s just no one knew.

At a young age they burn into your head money makes the world go around and there’s no way to succeed if you don’t take the obvious route. Our generation helped to give birth to the fact that “all money isn’t good money”. Many of us would rather work a job that is fulfilling and leads to security, the feeling that we’re not just another employee. Most of us feel this way because the generations before felt it too and just couldn’t find the voices to speak. Social growing pains are a thing we all go through together and must realize that each of us is a vital part of the wheel. Patience can make this process much easier, with ourselves and each other. Start by asking yourself if what you’re doing is and always has been, what you’ve always wanted to do. Or is it just a tool of survival.

Most of us honestly as millennial’s just want to be able to provide and teach our children what our parents weren’t taught. How to strive for your truest self and beliefs. How to know that struggle is apart of life but the right struggle for the right thing is always worth it. Patience can feel impossible with the world changing so fast and many clinging to old ways of society. The road of conformity is always the same but the narrow almost unseen path to you is always waiting to share with you the wonders of life. Have patience with each other and ask questions if you don’t understand something or someone. I believe in You!