To be a Millennial, or not to be.

Am I a so-called “millennial”? Morley Safer from 60 Minutes reports that there are about 80 million millennial’s that were born between 1980 and 1995, and they are taking over from the baby boomers (Whom could be our parents) that are now pushing 60. Though some sources will tell you different birth years for a millennial. I myself was born in 1986, so am I one? After watching the brief segment called the Millennial’s are coming, I feel I am definitely a millennial because I am one who has grown up in the information age, where technology and the way my parents brought me up, shaped who I am today.

Here, I present a quote from the segment shown on 60 Minutes, which I found very interesting and I did not want to butcher what was said. "I believe that they actually think of themselves like merchandise on eBay. 'If you don't want me, Mr. Employer, I'll go sell myself down the street. I'll probably get more money. I'll definitely get a better experience. And by the way, they'll adore me. You only like me,'" Salzman says. I truly agree with what Salzman had said because we are a generation that won’t settle and that we also know we deserve better. Perhaps it was the way our parents raised us? They raised us with the intentions that if we put our mind to it, we could do anything we wanted to and that we wouldn’t be like them, where we wouldn’t settle. We live in an age were we have options and we can choose to seek them out if we must. It may sound narcissistic but that is just how Millennials are, and you can’t blame us for it.

Because I am a Millennial, does that mean we are the next, great generation? Well another article titled “The Next Great Generation”, it had said that millennials are programmed by their parents to an extraordinary degree, with ambitious schedules of homework and extracurricular activities. I don’t know if programmed is exactly the right word but they taught us that we could do anything we want. When you can do that, anything is possible. The only problem is, the world is not perfect and you can’t do anything you want. There is this ideology that my generation is ambitious and we strive to reach our goals which is true to the most part. We find things that we can excel in, we improve and we go for the goals. I think that’s what makes Millennials, the next great generations!