An Open Letter to Millennials

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Take it easy. We all will get there one day. I know lately, things are happening all too fast - too instant - too passing. You know what I mean. One moment you're with the best person in your life, feeling warm and happy, enjoying each other's company - now you're alone, trying to stand strong, but shaking inside. One moment you have the best job in the world - now you're wondering why you don't love it anymore, why you feel dull and dead. One moment you're so full of passion towards something, perhaps your feelings, an advocacy to protect, or a mission to fulfill - now, you've become aimless, lost, invisible even.

Hold your horses. I know you want to scream. I understand you want to run away from this troublesome world. I recognize your need to travel. Because you think it gives you satisfaction. Because you believe it calms your soul. Because you don't want to see and hear what's real. You want to experience beauty and tranquility. You want to feel genuinely. You want to detach from what you think is causing you pain. You want to be yourself free from the world's judging eyes. You yearn to be somewhere far, because you believe that where you are right now, is a source of haunting heart aches and memories and promises that are broken.

Go ahead. Run away. Travel the world. See what's out there. Jump off into the sea. Swim as much as you want. Fly a kite. Eat good meals. Build a sand castle. Go to places that's far away from your fears. Break free.

But don't you dare forget to go back. I know you will go back because there is no other way to fix all this but to go back. Go back to the present, to the now, to what's real - even though it hurts. Because I allowed you to wander far, I expect you to come back stronger. Fiercer than the storm that once damaged you.

I want you to understand that what's out there is not your reality. Your moment is yourself. You are a living proof of beauty, of tranquility, of peace that you always wanted to have. You are what you are looking for, nothing more, nothing less. But you seem to forget that because of the things you see around that are distracting you. You tell me others have to change because they have made you angry, but you are just mad because of you. Because others did not fit your standard. You say that the world is unfair - that people are selfish. But are you not part of that group called people? You feel heartbroken because you've lost - your home, your family, your boyfriend, girlfriend, your things. But isn't that the point of life? To gain or to lose but still to live?


Take it easy. We all will get there one day. I know lately, things are happening all too fast - too instant - too passing. They say it's our generation. They say it's because we're millennials. But generations are only labels. They do not define. More importantly, it's not our identity. Even this letter has to reach an end as fast. But you are still alive and reading this. You have not yet come to an end. You have the power to slow things down - to breathe - to lie down. But never forget to live. Because you deserve it.




I'm sorry. This letter has never been so much about being a millennial.
It's about reminding you, that you are gorgeous.

So live on.



//MJ