My first paper for this class was about if the term “emerging adulthood” was beneficial or harmful to my generation (the one it affects the most) if it was used more in general. My stance was that it would be more of a harmful thing if the term was normalized because it would give kids my age an excuse to be lazy (I’m paraphrasing myself). The way I wrote about older generations in the first essay could have been seen as a bit sharp. I firmly believe that older people are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves and I don’t think I gave the generation enough credit for being “understanding.”

Older generations (my overall experience with them) not only sympathize with the millennials but also admire us. I was shocked to realize this but it kind of makes sense. Part of my shock was created by myself because I had always been told that everyone expected everything from me; my parents wanted me to do better than what they had. That is not entirely true, at least with the first part.

When I conducted an interview for another assignment, the interviewee expressed great enthusiasm for my generation, and I was very surprised. Taking a closer look at my other interactions with people the same age as my interviewee, I noticed that they pretty much all shared the same opinion on my generation. Given all of this information, I think I was a bit harsh on my generation; although I still hold the same opinion I did when I wrote my first paper, I can concede that I could’ve given my generation a little bit of slack.