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Boomer: I miss being young
GenX: I miss being young
Millennial: I miss being young
GenZ / Alpha: I was told young people had more money 20 years ago and I wish I had more money
What are the chances you are GenZ / Alpha?
Older generations bitch about "damn kids these days don't respect their elders" ever since at least Socrates.
The young have always bitched about the older generations being stuck in their ways and being too nostalgic about their own youth.
This is the way.
You're not special.
Why would it matter if they're genz/alpha? They are describing observed trends.
What in their comment has anything to do with people shouting respect their elders? Or younger people thinking old people are too nostalgic? It seems the opposite if anything, more based on older people's nostalgia for their time and younger people internalizing that, not fighting against it.
When did they claim to be special?
This reads like stand up from the 80s
As a Millenial, I can 100% say that I do not miss being young. Granted, the busted lumbar region and cranky guts aren't fun, but the familiarity with my own body and the gained cognitive complexity are worth a helluva lot more to me.
I do miss those contexts and how they made me feel, I miss seeing my friends carefree and jovial, and I miss drum and bass and punk gigs. But I was a moron back then, and the shit I did to myself, I wouldn't wish on anyone else.
No, there is one thing: I miss not needing as much sleep as I do now.
Millennial here. I don’t miss being young at all. Sure my body is aging, but it doesn’t make up for how much better I’m doing mentally and emotionally. Also I’m grateful every day that I’m personally sort of financially ok, unlike a lot of our generation and the ones after. Helps being childfree though, because having children would be extremely expensive.
There are a lot of physical things I miss from being young, eyesight, faster recovery from injury and illness, etc. I didn't have money, I had unmanaged depression, I lacked a lot of self esteem. However, I had more friends(or at least acquaintances), more hope in people, much better physical fitness, and in hindsight a lot of my worries weren't that serious.
Aging and youth are both mixed bags. But I'll take being older without a doubt. -A younger millennial
Don't lump us in with boomers. That's just bad manners.
Ever since the "Nobody knows how to fix a ~~car~~ computer except a ~~Boomer~~ Millennial" memes started trending, we've surrendered our "Better than that" card to GenZ.
Millennials are as vulnerable to this crap as anyone else.