You’re being asked to find your way in a world in the middle of a devastating pandemic and a terrible recession. You’re going to have to grow up faster than some generations. It’s woken a lot of young people up to the fact that the old ways of doing things just don’t work. Because with so much uncertainty, with everything suddenly up for grabs, this is your generation’s world to shape. Usually because a new generation — young people like you — learned from past mistakes and figured out how to make things better.

Source: New York Times May 17, 2020 04:05 UTC