So 2016 sucks, right? Celebrity after celebrity, legend after legend, icon after icon’s are dying. The likes of David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Paul Daniels, Sir Terry Wogan, Ronnie Corbett, Victoria Wood and most recently Prince have left us. It would seem God is planning one almighty festival in heaven this year! Now the question keeps coming up of who is going to carry the torch for our generation, the millennials (those born in the 80’s and 90’s)?
I honestly think our generation is actually going to be the greatest in the long run, I’ve said this for a couple of years now. Here’s why, we are the last generation who understood the idea of doing something stupid and it not being recorded. We grew up as technology advanced meaning everyone now has a phone with a camera so they can capture their’s and their friends antics. We as a generation are become so self aware of our flaws, mistakes and what we’re great at. I mean we have Facebook reminding us what we posted 7 years ago on that day, lets be honest we all delete a huge chunk of it.
We’re realising we will all have a legacy on the internet and do we really want our kids finding a status we posted in 2009 about getting stupidly drunk and how amazing it was? While millennials often get a bad rap (often from the X generation, our parents generation). They often say we are self entitled and narcissistic. The thing is, we were raised with the mantra of “follow your dreams” – So maybe it’s not all our fault. We are a generation who aren’t just the future leaders, we are today’s. For instance, Adele, Mark Zuckerberg, Lionel Messi and Malala Yousafzai. If you have no idea what impact they’ve had in their respective areas just go wiki them.
The legends in music, comedy or what ever – like wine gets better with age. Over time we’ll realise who these iconic people are and how they’ve influenced their world. Trust me, we’re great and we are going to be amazing!