They are just doing things differently

Millennials raised with privileges are often associated with being lazy because we have everything handed to us. Let’s be honest, we do.

However, with everything being so easily accessible and living in a comfortable environment, we feel even greater pressure to be recognised as competent individuals.

We constantly feel the need to apply relentless knowledge and skills to prove ourselves to the older generations. There is a persistent comparison of how things were and should be done.

We grew up using the internet, it’s like that’s our fault. Forgive us for ‘YouTubing’ how to fix a runny pipe or how to make a sandwich. It’s true that our brains live and breathe technology, but it is both a blessing and curse to be raised in a dynamic society like that.

The time we are growing up in isn’t easy. We spend years getting educated just to be told by someone that we need experience to get an internship. That’s the level of competition we face.

For our generation success is shaped by academics, whereas the previous generations might have not focused on formal education as much.

It’s therefore unfair to view us as mere recipients of information, who take things for granted. We are just a generation who are technology savvy and do things differently.

We are just as hardworking and aware of the process that leads to success as anyone who was born before us. From Ms Mahnoor Malik

Bachelor of Arts student based in Dubai