Millennial Timeline

*this was fired from the fingertips of a hungry writer during lunch time. excuse the broken sentences and such.*

It's a classic scene:

A child, growing into it's adolescence, opens it's eyes to the mass of New. New sensations, new goals, new drive, new found thoughts and patterns. It considers how it might be able to make a life for itself. Suddenly it begins to ponder on what values it stands for. It's out of school now, possibly out of the house it grew up in. What's the next move? What's the next course to take? Very typically it will instinctively - if not subconsciously - look to its parent(s)/guardian(s) for the overall clue. This has happened - and worked - so many times before. Before any of us were alive. In places none of us have been to. Places that no longer exist.

Here's the thing.

This Millennial Generation - incidentally my generation - is unique in that we appear to be "starting our lives" a bit later. It has been argued that this is due, in large part, to the fact that we do not have certain opportunities on our metaphorical table that our predecessors had. It could be argued that we make up a majority of the bridge between the Traditionalists and the New Generationalists. Between the hoards of generations who copy and pasted patterns made by those before them and the new generation (Gen Z) who, although did not invent the internet and all of technology, are quickly learning how to capitalize upon it. Gen Z is using magnificent tools that have been laid before them in such an exponentially more brilliant way than we Millennials ever have/possibly could. Young entrepreneurs flood your instagram page. A new kind of comedy and skill presentation take YouTube by storm. Many of these incredibly successful individuals would not even be able to rent a car legally, but no matter; they'll buy one with their funds they worked for by using their technological tool of choice!

And so I suspect Gen Z, the furthest from the Traditionalists, will ironically trend closer to the Boomer's timeline (and masses of people before them) while Millennials will likely be the odd-man-out, starting their "20s" at their "30s" and so on.

While Millennials deny their fate and down their glass of vino, Gen Z watches along like a clever little brother and vows to find a way out. Even if that means creating a new tool and mining the way to the surface on their own.