I can’t understand our generation. I can’t understand why we all pretend we’re so ‘broken’. I can’t understand wanting to be unique so badly that you have to pretend there is something wrong with you. But most of all, I can’t understand this plethora of patheticness overcoming Generation Y. Are we really all so desperate for attention that we need to make up ridiculous stories about being bullied/teased/depressed/have some sort of ailment to make the general populous feel sorry for us? Why so many of us want to be recognized as ‘f*cked up’?

Don’t misconstrue the point I’m trying to get across. I fully and complete comprehend the seriousness of mental illnesses and other issues. I’ve been exposed to quite a few survivors over my lifetime, including immediate family members. The issue I want to discuss is that people feel upset one day, people who feel fat one day, people who blatantly lie about their health in order to be different.

My ex-roommate is a prime example.

She runs her own blog here on tumblr describing her struggle with anorexia. She has hundreds upon hundreds of followers all reading her every day trials and tribulations with the disease. The only issue is that she isn’t anorexic. She’s got no problems with food. Her only mental illness is her pathological lying. She had everyone around her, not only her tumblr followers that she was on a slow spiral into extreme anorexia. However, after 2 months of her coming home and saying she’d eaten nothing all day, I begun to realise that if she really was eating nothing all day, she would’ve dropped about 10 kilograms by now; that if she wasn’t eating anything, why was I constantly finding empty packets of food in her room; that is she really was anorexic, why was all the food in my cupboard disappearing with no logical explanation?

There is no denying that she has serious issues. Along with everyone else in our generation, I’m no denying there are true issues. But they’re often not the issues that everyone is claiming it to be. None of our generation are actually attempting to remedy the true ailment and the true cause because it’s easier to pass off their resentment towards things as another issue. It’s all a cry for attention. And with the rates of both parents working full-time jobs to have to make ends-meat, it doesn’t surprise me.

I have problems with anxiety. I know this. I know what cause this. It wasn’t because I was teased in high school. It wasn’t because my parents ignored it. It wasn’t any of the cliche reasons people are providing for their problems. It is because I put too much pressure on myself to reach the highest targets. I was one of Generation ‘Why’. This was until I made the decision to do something about it. To stop pitying myself, to stop wanting others to pity me. I chose to stop being a victim of my past and myself. And I’m better for it.

There comes a time where we need to grow up and stop being victims of our past and ourselves. We’re no longer children. Our generation our now nearly all adults. This means we need to take responsibility for our actions, including the words that come out of our mouths. Take responsibility for your own well being, stop pitying yourself, stop wanting others to pity you, come to terms with the real issue and solve it, instead of sitting around making up bullsh*t lies and constantly asking “why me?”. Don’t be a part of Generation ‘Why’. Be a part of Generation ‘Yes’.

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