Positive Affirmations: 6 reasons why Gen Z is actually the luckiest generation to live in
"Things are always working out for me": I was born in the luckiest generation, I'll tell you why
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Inability of affording to live alone makes you value family
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I used to do budgeting with my mom last year. After rent, gas, insurance, car, groceries, I have exactly $5 left in my bank account, giving me just enough for a latte at Starbucks. It’s actually so embarrassing the fact that eggs are $7 and that gas is $6 a gallon. Does the country want people to start eating air? While older generations and millennials have either resorted to crying or taking on another job, Gen X including myself, we actually started throwing away more obligations. We chose happiness and peace. One of my best friends finished college and started traveling in a Tesla and she no longer has to worry about rent, gas, nor the inflated price of living. I myself started moving back home with my parents and realized it is so much mentally peaceful than living alone paycheck to paycheck trying to cover rent. So how am I lucky. I’m lucky bc the inflated price of living made me value my Gen Z parents who adore me and won’t let me move out until I die. It made me closer and not feel so pressured to move out and start my own life. Like other Gen Zs, I get to spend time with my mom and dad who won’t be here forever and brought me closer to them.
College Degrees are no longer enough but freelancing is
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My parents are traditional and think that I’m going to have a multi-six figure salary, a three bedroom house, and a brand new car after I get my degree. My degree these days means absolutely nothing and other Gen Zs find themselves jobless even after four years of intense study. But Gen Zs are lucky because they no longer need college, really. Companies and brands are willing to pay Gen Zs a yearly salary for a post and social media audiences are signing up for influencer programs that allows Gen Zs to work a job based on their interest, lifestyle, and passion rather than clocking in a nine to five everyday. Meaningless college degrees definitely gave me a chance to rethink my corporate job. Check out Anastazia, a famous tiktok influencer. She said without the struggling job market and marketing corporate job she hated, she wouldn’t have found influencer marketing, a job that earns her 10k per post.
Social Media creates family
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Whenever I told my mom I’m sad she would blame it on my phone. Every single time. "If you got off your phone, maybe you would be less depressed and lazy”. What she doesn’t know is that Tiktok is actually the only time I’m not depressed and the place that feels like home and family. Lots of digital creators can relate to this but your following is like your family and friends. They make you feel like you a community where you can share your interests and goals, despite the haters once in a while. I use social media to interact with girls that are interested in the same ideas and content as me. I genuinely think without my account, I would feel like I lost my family. Even Gen Z streamers, their likes, their fans are their family, especially when they don’t get that type of support in their real life.
Spending isn’t bad, Spoil Yourself *Sprinkle Sprinkle*
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My dad always yells at me for the Amazon packages that get delivered every day. It’s just so easy to buy something when Tiktok shop exists and Jeff Bezos invented prime. Our parents may be right. We have to invest for the future and shouldn’t be spending money for instant gratification but they are also heavily wrong. I think Gen Zs realize that you work to have fun, to buy treasurable things, and to travel. Our parents never did that. They saved and saved and saved and for what. To have a million dollars when they are 50? I guess it’s important to save but there should be a more temporary purpose of making money. It’s to experience travels, purchases that you dreamed of, and to work even harder to be able to afford another experience. I’m not unlucky because I maxed out of Amex, I’m lucky because I get to experience what I've earned and I know the importance of doing so.
Covid-19 hits Gen Z but they come back together
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I remember Covid. Actually I don’t want to think about it, it gives me *anxiety*. I hate not being able to attend graduation, my prom due to a virus that basically shut the country down. This is why my generation is called the “unluckiest generation” bcause we got hit with multiple waves of Covid. It’s like when you are trying to swim out of a wave but you get hit wave after wave lol. But I’m actually lucky we had Covid-19 is because it made us think as a “we” than just me. I remember when grandparents and my loved ones were so sick from the virus and they had no option but to resort to Gofundme and social media to gain financial and social support. I was in shock. The amount of Gen Z that reposted the tweets and posts, it really is the first time I saw 100k get raised so fast. That’s why I’m so lucky to be born as a Gen Z. I no longer started thinking about myself. If I saw a post of a fellow Gen Z who needed support, I allocate my starbucks budget to their Gofundme, i repost their tweet, their tiktok, and dm them out of love. Not that’s a slay.
Gen Z “Soft Life” means more traveling less clocking in
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I don’t get why people hate on Gen Z for being “influencers”. It’s another way of making money and it doesn’t make me or any Gen Z lazy or inadequate. All we want is a soft life that is basically a life where I’m not checking my bank account every two seconds. I remember when “soft life” made headlines on Tiktok. It got so much hate except from our generation. “Soft life” doesn’t mean we don’t work as hard. Content creation is difficult and requires creativity and intelligence, tech-saviness, and wit. I’m just not clocking into a job that slaves me away for life to find myself forty without having traveled or experienced a life of peace. Other generations just hate admitting our luck to be born in this type of era. An era where we have the luxury to work from our phones and for brands that pay us better than big companies do. We are a lucky generation and with Gen X achieving financial freedom quicker than parents do these days, you got to give it to us.