GenY: conquer your fears and defy the odds

 

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Eleanor Roosevelt said it best:

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

Fear.  

Sometimes it eats you, sometimes you eat it (twss*).

We're all scared of something - moving to a new city, quitting a job, ending a relationship, dying - but the thing is, life is about conquering your fears.  It's about challenging yourself, expanding your limits and defying the odds.  It's about the pursuit of happiness and discovering yourself.  

How many times have you done something you were afraid of and then looked back and said, "I'm so glad I did that."  Suddenly, that fear becomes an accomplishment.  And that accomplishment inspires you to tackle the next big thing that comes your way.  And our biggest accomplishments are often the things we feared most.

Our generation - the GenY - is defying the odds.  We're proving ourselves and everyone around us that we're invincible.  Because you know what?  We are invincible.  Moving across the country?  No problem.  Backpacking through Europe for three months?  Bring it on.  Meeting strangers off the internet and establishing a close friendship?  Been there, done that.  Our parents and grandparents don't understand it, but you know what?  They don't have to.  I'll never understand why my father thought smoking a pipe was cool in his younger days, so I don't expect  our parents to understand twitter** or blogger meet-ups.

We're constantly doing something.  We're learning, we're growing, we're moving.  No distance is too far to travel and no fear is too scary to conquer.  We have given traveling, friendship, and career new meanings.  It's not just traveling to visit family or friends - it's traveling alone and perhaps overseas to enrich your culture and broaden your horizons.  Our closest friends aren't necessarily the ones we grew up with anymore - they're the ones we spent countless hours g-chatting or tweeting with.  A job isn't just a 9-5 desk job anymore - it's a career that involves doing something you're passionate about with an incentive to get paid.

We're conquering this thing called a quarter-life crisis because we know that something lies at the end of that tunnel.  We want to know what it is and we aren't going to settle until we find it.  And those road blocks that stand in our way?  Well it's much more interesting and gratifying to look back and realize that you've conquered your fears.

"We fall down.
We get up. We try to hold our head up when life pulls us apart.
We fight and we bleed but all we ever need is
something to hope for"

* Someone didn't know what T-W-S-S- stood for until recently.  I know, I can't believe it either.

** I'm 26 and I still don't understand twitter, but it's starting to slowly grow on me. (TWSS)