I had spent a childhood convinced that the world would end by the time I reached maturity. I was in the campus therapist’s office to try to treat what I was sure was unfounded anxiety, to try to get college right this time. I remember this was said approvingly by some of my fellow American students, not with dread or fear. I tried to convince her that real life wasn’t what it looked like in the pictures. All generational divides operate on the binary of youth versus age, but the particular version of youth attributed to millennials is one that exists outside of time and history.

Source: New York Times June 01, 2019 17:48 UTC