dual personalities

I mean really.

I saw this recently released survey on a blog I read, that said 3 out of 5 Millennials believe that this is the most stressful time EVER in history. To 60% of everyone over 18 and under 35, no place/time in human history has had more human stress than now.

The survey included a Top 20 List of the stresses that are devastating Millennials:

1. Losing wallet/credit card
2. Arguing with partner
3. Commute/traffic delays
4. Losing phone
5. Arriving late to work
6. Slow WiFi
7. Phone battery dying
8. Forgetting passwords
9. Credit card fraud
10. Forgetting phone charger
11. Losing/misplacing keys
12. Paying bills
13. Job interviews
14. Phone screen breaking
15. Credit card bills
16. Check engine light coming on
17. School loan payments
18. Job security
19. Choosing what to wear
20. Washing dishes

Clearly the Millennials who took the survey don’t know much (or anything) about history. I mean it would be laughable if it weren’t so pathetic.

With nothing to compare their lives to, they have no idea how privileged they are. I don’t know about you, but I never take indoor plumbing for granted. And, boy, I am grateful for the fact that strep throat can no longer kill me. Or real Nazis. I may feel ostracized on occasion because I am a church-going Christian, but no one is threatening to burn me at the stake for my beliefs.

Sigh. To most of us adults, the stresses listed above are merely the minor annoyances of modern living. No. Big. Deal. In fact, Millennials have too much choice, too much food, too much leisure time, too much entertainment. They have way too much. Period. And they are not grateful for any of it. I can’t help thinking that the ancestors of these Millennials, who suffered and sacrificed to get to this country, would be very disappointed in their descendants.

Suffering builds character, remember?

Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. ³ And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴ and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵ and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. (Romans 5:1-5).

But, hey, today is the first day of spring! Huzzah!