tldr; I'm exhausted already and I don't understand why therapy isn't free worldwide lol !?
I was born in 1995 (yes that's me and Opa in 1995!)... so I'm a millennial. I've lived through countless terrorist attacks, two major wars, two “once-in-a-lifetime” recessions, a global pandemic, "smaller" plagues, the rise of cyber-crimes, intense climate emergencies, a major surge in political and social activism, now FOUR different decades, two different centuries and two different millennia... and I'm not even 26 until June of this year. 😶
But wait, there's more...
It's apparently pretty widely accepted across the internet that my generation is just really, really unlucky, and even before our 30s we deserve to be called elders and deserve free therapy... but I digress. I was really curious and this shit's interesting to me so I researched some shit millennials have lived through and listed what I came up with. I bolded the events I specifically remember to 2012, but everything after too!
1990s: (I was born in 1995 so I'm starting there)
1995: Rwanda massacre; Fighting escalates in Bosnia/Croatia; Oklahoma City bombing; Selena Quintanilla dies
1996: Ask Jeeves is created and internet explodes
1997: Death of Princess Diana
1998: Google exists; Apple drops iMac
1999: Columbine Massacre
2000s:
2000: Beginning of new millennium! Mobile phones get more popular & easily attainable.
2001: 9/11 (I honestly don't remember this at all); first iPod is released
2002: First cell phone with camera now exists!!
2003: Myspace launches; Same-sex marriage became legal in Ontario (was already legalized in eight of ten provinces and one of three territories)
2004: Indian Ocean Tsunami (personally the first traumatic thing I learned about from the news. I was 9.); Facebook launches; Beheading video circulates
2005: Hurricane Katrina; Canada became the first country outside Europe and the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide
2006: Hussein Executed; 65 Miners trapped in Mexico
2007: The iPhone now exists!
2008: Obama is elected president; Global financial crisis; Beijing Olympics; Greyhound bus murder in Canada
2009: First black president into office; Michael Jackson dies (I watched his funeral on TV, that was emotional for me but I didn't know why); Swine flu (my best friend and my boyfriend both caught it around the same time... somehow I didn't?)
2010s:
2010: Earthquake in Haiti; First iPad released; Instagram launches
2011: Bin Laden killed; Steve Jobs dies; War in Syria starts; AirBnB launches; Will & Kate get married
2012: KONY bullshit! End of the world for sure happening this year...
2013: New pope; Cory Monteith dies (I cried for a whole day); Nelson Mandela dies
2014: Malaysia Airlines plane disappears; Ebola crisis in West Africa; ISIS rises to prominence; Robin Williams dies
2015: Same sex marriage legalized in US!!!!
2016: Trump elected; Brexit stuff; Fort McMurray wildfire in Canada; Harambe dies; Pokemon Go explodes and the world knows peace for a hot minute
2017: Hurricanes Harvey (Texas), Irma(Florida, Ireland) (my first hurricane! I was living in Ireland during this time), Maria (Puerto Rico); # MeToo movement; Quebec mosque shooting; Gord Downey of The Tragically Hip dies
2018: California wildfires; Humboldt Broncos crash in Canada; Toronto van attack in Canada; Prince Harry/Meghan Markle marry; Weed is finally legal in Canada
2019: Hong Kong protests; First black hole photo surfaces; BC murder manhunt in Canada
2020s:
2020: Australia on fire, COVID, BLM………. and whatever else happened last year? wtf.
2021: Coup on US government, 2nd impeachment on Trump, more COVID... I'm exhausted and it's only the end of January.
TBD...
So listen, I know other generations have been unlucky in their own ways but this isn't comparing my generation to theirs. Just because there are terrible, awful things happening to other people in other parts of the world or in other generations, that doesn't take away from the trauma and other issues that have become a result of the shit my generation has lived through. It doesn't minimize the things we're living through today. But if you don't know a whole lot about some of these things (especially in the 90s when we were all little still) I highly recommend you research them!
I also realize I didn't add everything but nobody is gonna read a post that takes more than 5 min to read so this is quit enough. You get the point! Are you not exhausted (but said like the 'are you not entertained' thing) ha ha.. ha.
Anyway, go to therapy and take care of your mental health. Always, but especially these days.
Much looooooove
xx ♡ S
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