Dear Millennials,
You are miserable.
The reason? You believe that life
should be easy; That the goal is to make
all things you desire within reach.
Given how you have been raised, I can see how you would believe this to
be the way of things. It’s a lie. Life is supposed to be hard. That’s the point of it.
- 1. You desire
- 2. You work hard/smart
- 3. You Might get what you desire
- 4. Rinse and repeat.
The feeling of achievement has come easily for you. Your ‘Sports Days’ come with Participation Awards. The computer games with all their achievements,
Social Media, powerful cell phones. You
get a steady stream of dopamine. That
happy brain drug is so available in such a variety of convenience.
If something feels good then why not do it? Why work so hard for something you only might get when a sure happy feeling is
waiting for you at the press of a button?
It’s chemistry and it makes sense.
The problem is that you are tricking your own mind to
release a drug that is meant to reward you for a real world
accomplishment. You are, essentially,
Dopamine junkies. In this way, it is no
different than sitting around masturbating all day.
This is the real damage of computer games. Not the sex.
Not the violence. It’s the ease
at which one can receive gratification for something that really doesn’t
matter.
Millennials; Your
parents fucked you over by doing too much for you. They felt that by doing so much for you, that
you would see how much they cared. But they
were ‘Care taking’ you.
You have to own
your own life now. Do for yourself. Eventually they won’t be able to look after
you and you will be a 50 year old douche who can’t do shit for himself.
From their retirement home, with failing
bodies and feeble minds, your parents will watch you and everything they built
for you fall apart. They busted their asses
to keep you comfortable but really only enabled your addiction.
Now go out and take charge of your life. Don’t go out and bemoan the mountain that you
haven’t climbed yet. Feel the
satisfaction of every step forward.
Revel in defeating impulses in order to move to a greater goal. You do this and you are no longer playing the game…you’re in it
