I see a lot
of millennial men breaking under the pressure of life, giving up work, relying
on their wives, or their parents, and almost completely shutting down as
productive members of society.
Some snap out
of it.
Many so far
have not.
Some are
incredibly resentful at those who challenge them. Some just have this look of
pure defeat in their eyes.
Something
really broke the millennial generation. You could probably identify a lot of
causes, maybe I will write about some. A few that come to mind right now are:
therapy culture, online culture, large scale immigration blocking their pathways
to the same easy success boomers generally had, multiple financial crises
happening at stages of their career development, medicalization of many mental
health issues, the diversification of the work force blocking a lot of paths to
success, and more. There are many causes of these issues.
But men,
sometimes we just have to overcome, for the sake of our wives, our kids, our
families, our descendants, we just have to get back up and keep going. Even
when we don’t want to. Plenty of men in the past have done that.
This is not a
guilt trip. It is just reality. You can choose to give up and you will not
leave a legacy or mark pretty much anywhere, and certainly not when you are
gone, as many men have. Or you can accept reality and seek to mold aspects of
it to your will, as many men have done before you. Both kinds of men exist in
every generation, I do suspect those who give up are more prevalent in ours.
“This is not
fair!!!” I hear you cry. Correct, life is not fair. There is just something to
be said for accepting reality and seeking to be what we are called to be as
men, providers and shapers of civilisations.
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