It’s negativity everywhere.
There’s not a day that goes by when I’m not encountering something negative about my generation.
We’re facing so many obstacles. So many of us can’t get jobs. College tuition is too high or admissions process is too competitive. We’re suffering from too much debt…paying student loans forever. Many of us have to go back to living with our parents. We can’t pay our bills. And those who are undocumented immigrants either can’t go to school or can’t go into the workforce.
So what are we supposed to do? We did everything that right way. But somehow our society has become so self-involved. It’s like older generations don’t know the gravity of what our generation is going through. The dark times feel like they’re going to be forever. It’s in these moments… these dark moments when it feels like what’s the point.
You feel bitter.
Why? Because we were told (and continue to be told) to follow our passions…to do what we love. But now, it seems like you’re almost screwed if you didn’t go into tech. It makes you feel like is it still worth dreaming.
But somehow you and I both know, there is going to be a moment where we’re not going to be in this position. Our stories are just in the making. We can use inspiring people and our mentors as motivations to say that they overcame it, so I can overcome it too. Our generation’s story is just in the making.
Your story is just in the making.
Dream and continue dreaming. Never give up on what it is that you want out of life. We were created to dream. We were created to use our lives and our passions to think above and beyond more than what many believe to be possible. That’s what dreaming is all about.
Everyone has their time. Some people who didn’t get into college when everyone. Some people didn’t get a job right after college. Everyone goes through something at different moments –whether it’s in college or after college. Not everyone is going to follow the exact same kind of trajectory or success. You can’t compare your life to someone else’s, but what you can do is keep dreaming and continuing to go after what it is that you want out of life.
Never give up on life. You have to dream in your own lane and dream for yourself.