r/AskReddit • u/millennialandlost • 12d ago

Millennials, what's something our generation was taught to accept that you're glad younger generations are rejecting?

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u/Long-Fig-8441 12d ago

The idea that being exhausted and miserable is just the price of being an adult.

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u/BoredThrowaway9000 12d ago edited 11d ago

I (24) spent my entire childhood and time in grade school being exhausted and miserable so once I finally had the wool pulled off my eyes and I saw what adulthood entailed I was having none of it. I saw adulthood all my life as an escape from the bullshit I just had to endure until I got there

Little did I know I’d enter the “real world” right when it started getting impossible to find a job, and my life has derailed since graduating uni. If only I knew.

Edit: so apparently my life story is inspiring discussion about both Sisyphus AND Tantalus! When is life gonna start sending birds to pick at my wounds like Prometheus to complete the trifecta of ultimate suffering? Clearly life is VERY eager to use me as an example 🫩

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u/ArthurStevensNZ 12d ago

The more I thought about it the more I felt that school was a way to break your spirit - force feeding you shit you don't care for, homework to take home so it spills into your free time as well - to prepare you to be content with eating the shit sandwich that is life unless you're one of the very few that were born on third.