Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.
The hardest psychological pill you will ever have to swallow is realizing you are a victim of the "Mirror Fallacy."
You keep getting betrayed, used, and disappointed by people, and you sit around wondering why you have such bad luck. You don't have bad luck. You have a massive projection problem.
You keep looking at other people and expecting them to have your heart, your work ethic, and your sense of loyalty. You assume that because you would never lie to them, they would never lie to you. Because you would give them your last dollar, they would do the same.
People do not operate with your moral compass. Stop projecting your own character onto people who have repeatedly shown you they operate on pure survival and selfishness. You are breaking your own heart by expecting lions to eat grass just because you are a vegetarian.
“Be where your feet are.” My mind has a habit of wandering to the past or worrying about the future, so I return to that sentence whenever I feel pulled away from the moment I am actually in.
I've talked to my dad about this before.
1. They didn't have time to sit around and get depressed cause at our age they had like 4 kids to provide for.
2. There was no social media, so they rarely knew about what their peers were achieving.
3. They never set future goals for themselves, just lived life in the present.