Things are tougher compared to the older generations

From my personal experience and opinion as a millennial, I don’t think it is that simple to define us as a ‘spoilt’ generation. We have a lot more opportunities but we also have an equivalent amount of hardships that come with them.

An example of that is: If you started a business a few years ago, your competition would be the local businesses. However, nowadays you compete with the international market that has the resources to put you out of business. So one has to work a lot harder now.

What I am trying to say is, for every sea of opportunity we have, we have a sea of challenges as well.

Also, if we define being ‘spoilt’ with the same parameters as done at the time of previous generations then it wouldn’t make sense since so many things have complicated that equation. We are too diverse and too different to be easily categorised in just one word — millennials.

So, in my opinion, we are just as spoilt as the previous generations, the only difference is that we easily have resources that they had to work hours for. However, in our generation, those resources aren’t enough, competition is high and survival is difficult so we have to aim higher to succeed. The thing that unites us with every previous generation is that they, too, were once looked down upon by the ones before them.

From Mr Mohammad Yaseen

Computer science student based in Abu Dhabi