This Thread About Why Millennials Are Taking Longer to Grow Up Is Too Damn Accurate
The Millennial generation has gotten a lot of sh*t from older generations ever since they came upon the age of adulthood. From being told they can't buy houses because they spend too much money on avocado toast to being blamed for basically every sh*tty restaurant chain going out of business, Millennials just can't seem to do anything worthy of praise in the eyes of Baby Boomers. But a Twitter thread by user Spumpkin Pice has a theory on why Millennials are taking longer to grow up than the generations before us... and it's so accurate it hurts.
I think millennials are taking a longer time coming to terms w/ the fact that we’re adults b/c a lot of us can’t afford to live like adults.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
A large number of us live with parents or roommates, are underemployed, underpaid, struggling under the weight of student loans, etc.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
Our age seems to be incongruent with our lived experience. 30 is the new 18. We’re buying houses, starting families, getting married later.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
I was pondering why I only just now feel like an adult in my late 20s and it hit me—
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
— a LOT of us are JUST starting to do things we thought we’d be doing at, say, 21. Maybe even 25.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
Another thing—how many of us can’t buy houses b/c we have too many student loans for the degrees that we were encouraged to get?
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
“They” say millennials are lazy but ignore the fact that we are OVERworked and chewed up and spit out by production oriented companies.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
“We had to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps!” say people whose proverbial bootstraps were already at their chest and in easy reach.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
And all of this makes it so easy for us to feel like we’re “behind.” But the truth is, our whole generation had an extended childhood.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
I would not be surprised if the majority of the millennial generation doesn’t retire until age 75–ten years after the “norm.”
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
I think it’s important to discuss this too b/c a lot of us are ashamed that we’re only at “this” point in life, whatever your “this” is.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
Society tells us you have to make $X to be successful. You have to get married, start a family to “contribute” to society.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
Hell, I’ve seen multiple financial sites say by your 30s you should have a year of salary saved. @_Oh_Bee just sent me an infographic today.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
But how many millennials have been able to consistently save 10% of their gross income in a retirement plan since they started working? Few.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
The truth is that FEW of us are able to do what “they” recommend. The model doesn’t work for our generation. It just doesn’t.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
I came back to this to say, it’s ok if you’re 30 and you’re not making $100K. A lot of us struggled to get to...hell. $40K.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
Remember all the discussions we’ve had about how $20/hour is great pay? That’s only $41.6K a year. We’re so used to being underpaid.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
It’s also ok if at 30 you’re unmarried and have 0 kids. You’re not a less worthy member of society because you haven’t repopulated the earth
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
(you know, the way the baby boomers’ parents did)
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
Anyway. To my fellow millennials. Stay strong. You have a lot of life ahead and it’s ok if you’re not where “they” said you should be.
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
Move at your own pace. Life will happen regardless. Talk to your friends when you feel down. They’re in the same place as you. 💚
— Spumpkin Pice (@thenKTwrote) October 23, 2017
Holy sh*t. This feels like being hit in the face with a truth stick, smashing into a million little pieces, and then coming back together without having a panic attack for once! GUYS, WE'RE GONNA BE FI-- oh, never mind. Just got a notification that I've got 10 more years to pay off that student loan! Everything is hard and the only way to do get through it is to procrastinate on adulthood forever, eat avocado toast, Postmates a pizza and binge watch Stranger Things.
Do you agree with this theory on Millennials' arrested development? Let us know @Smosh!
