[Music]
okay all right we often look to
generations that came before us for
hints and clues about what our future
may bring which is why today I am
standing before all of you with an
apology on behalf of my generation the
millennial generation for we have not
done an accurate job of depicting what
becoming an adult is like for the
younger generation and unlike any other
generation before us we have social
media a place where we can post all of
our thoughts and feelings on any given
subject at any given time so naturally
as we’ve started to grow up and to
become adults we’ve shared on social
media some of those moments that really
made us feel like an adult we even came
up with a really innovative hashtag for
it hashtag adulting now this is a recent
Twitter search from last week when I
typed in hashtag adulty I’m not going to
go through all of these but I’m gonna
read a couple of my personal favorites
this twitter user was so innovative felt
that she needed to share this life hack
with everyone that she heated up her
rice with a blow dryer
hashtag adulting this Twitter user was
really trying to share our kind of his
newly found adulthood new you know
palette for consuming food so he shared
his dinner on social media tonight’s
dinner consisted of airheads and redbull
hashtag adulting this third example here
is about somebody who had to Google a
tutorial on how to open a can
hashtag adulting hashtag where’s my mom
and finally my personal favorite this
Twitter user tweeted this as one of his
proudest moments and his entire adult
Deen life was that he figured out that
he could use a mop to clean his bathtub
now while I recognize that this can be
that this is an exercise of my
generation being sarcastic I the
definition of sarcasm is the use of
irony to mock or convey contempt for
something which led me to the greater
question that I wanted to answer today
why do we feel as a generation that we
need to mock what it is like to become
an adult
why do we feel the need to hide behind a
hashtag now I am someone who considers
both excuse me so – in today’s theme the
future of truth and in that spirit I
decided to go back in time with you all
to share some of my real truths about
what I felt a dull teen was like because
often adult teen is more than learning
how to open a can or do your own laundry
and it’s even more than figuring out
that next job or how to budget but the
problem is people don’t like to talk
about what it’s really like because it’s
hard and that’s the answer that I came
to becoming an adult is hard and there’s
challenges that you face along the way
and they often aren’t fun and they’re
not funny at the time and they certainly
aren’t going to get you past that a
hundred mark like on Instagram but
they’re important to share so I’m going
to go back in time with you guys now and
retro actively post on my social media
some of the moments throughout my adult
life let’s start in 2007
with a Facebook post that I could have
shared I’m feeling very defeated today
the starting spot I was working so hard
for
I’m yells lacrosse team was given to
someone else
hashtag adulting her an Instagram post
then I could have posted in 2013 I live
in a city of eight million people yet I
feel completely alone
work has taken over my life and I
haven’t seen friends her family in
week’s hashtag adulting and finally a
tweet from this week that I could have
posted I haven’t talked to my BFF from
college recently life happened and we
grew apart for a little and now I don’t
know how to start a conversation but the
problem with these tweets and Instagram
posts is that there are moments and they
also don’t tell the whole story about
adulting while my facebook post is to
show you that you will face rejection
from a college from a future employer
from someone you love what this doesn’t
show you is that rejection will drive
you and can be the fuel for success when
life shut the door it opens a window
rejection will force you to that window
my Instagram post feeling very lonely
obviously looking very upset right this
is to show you that you will find
yourself alone for moments minutes hours
but what this doesn’t show you is in
those moments alone you will actually
find yourself
and finally my tweet from this week
shows you that your friendships will
change but what it doesn’t show you is
that the more
things change the more they actually say
the same and you will find your people
this is a true hashtag Westminster gram
of my best friend Jordan Baxter and I in
seventh grade at a dance and this is us
now attending the wedding of a
Westminster alumni now I don’t have the
answers on how to find these things but
what I do have are some real actionable
pieces of advice that you can do to help
you find them
first when you introduce yourself shake
someone’s hand firmly look them in the
eye and state their your name clearly
for this will give you confidence and
who you are
second take your earbuds out and your
headphones off as technology continues
to grow human connection is more
important than it’s ever been before
this will give you presents and finally
something I struggle with every day
learn to say no people will ask a lot of
things from you in your life but they
ultimately come down to three main
things your money your time or your
knowledge learn to say no because this
will give you sanity adulting is just
growing up you do it every single day
you’ll continue to do it for the rest of
your life so when you wake up treat
every day as an opportunity because you
have one more day to figure out what
this whole adulting thing is all about
thank you
so we’re going to take a little break so
stay close yourself I can’t thank you
okay all right we often look to
generations that came before us for
hints and clues about what our future
may bring which is why today I am
standing before all of you with an
apology on behalf of my generation the
millennial generation for we have not
done an accurate job of depicting what
becoming an adult is like for the
younger generation and unlike any other
generation before us we have social
media a place where we can post all of
our thoughts and feelings on any given
subject at any given time so naturally
as we’ve started to grow up and to
become adults we’ve shared on social
media some of those moments that really
made us feel like an adult we even came
up with a really innovative hashtag for
it hashtag adulting now this is a recent
Twitter search from last week when I
typed in hashtag adulty I’m not going to
go through all of these but I’m gonna
read a couple of my personal favorites
this twitter user was so innovative felt
that she needed to share this life hack
with everyone that she heated up her
rice with a blow dryer
hashtag adulting this Twitter user was
really trying to share our kind of his
newly found adulthood new you know
palette for consuming food so he shared
his dinner on social media tonight’s
dinner consisted of airheads and redbull
hashtag adulting this third example here
is about somebody who had to Google a
tutorial on how to open a can
hashtag adulting hashtag where’s my mom
and finally my personal favorite this
Twitter user tweeted this as one of his
proudest moments and his entire adult
Deen life was that he figured out that
he could use a mop to clean his bathtub
now while I recognize that this can be
that this is an exercise of my
generation being sarcastic I the
definition of sarcasm is the use of
irony to mock or convey contempt for
something which led me to the greater
question that I wanted to answer today
why do we feel as a generation that we
need to mock what it is like to become
an adult
why do we feel the need to hide behind a
hashtag now I am someone who considers
both excuse me so – in today’s theme the
future of truth and in that spirit I
decided to go back in time with you all
to share some of my real truths about
what I felt a dull teen was like because
often adult teen is more than learning
how to open a can or do your own laundry
and it’s even more than figuring out
that next job or how to budget but the
problem is people don’t like to talk
about what it’s really like because it’s
hard and that’s the answer that I came
to becoming an adult is hard and there’s
challenges that you face along the way
and they often aren’t fun and they’re
not funny at the time and they certainly
aren’t going to get you past that a
hundred mark like on Instagram but
they’re important to share so I’m going
to go back in time with you guys now and
retro actively post on my social media
some of the moments throughout my adult
life let’s start in 2007
with a Facebook post that I could have
shared I’m feeling very defeated today
the starting spot I was working so hard
for
I’m yells lacrosse team was given to
someone else
hashtag adulting her an Instagram post
then I could have posted in 2013 I live
in a city of eight million people yet I
feel completely alone
work has taken over my life and I
haven’t seen friends her family in
week’s hashtag adulting and finally a
tweet from this week that I could have
posted I haven’t talked to my BFF from
college recently life happened and we
grew apart for a little and now I don’t
know how to start a conversation but the
problem with these tweets and Instagram
posts is that there are moments and they
also don’t tell the whole story about
adulting while my facebook post is to
show you that you will face rejection
from a college from a future employer
from someone you love what this doesn’t
show you is that rejection will drive
you and can be the fuel for success when
life shut the door it opens a window
rejection will force you to that window
my Instagram post feeling very lonely
obviously looking very upset right this
is to show you that you will find
yourself alone for moments minutes hours
but what this doesn’t show you is in
those moments alone you will actually
find yourself
and finally my tweet from this week
shows you that your friendships will
change but what it doesn’t show you is
that the more
things change the more they actually say
the same and you will find your people
this is a true hashtag Westminster gram
of my best friend Jordan Baxter and I in
seventh grade at a dance and this is us
now attending the wedding of a
Westminster alumni now I don’t have the
answers on how to find these things but
what I do have are some real actionable
pieces of advice that you can do to help
you find them
first when you introduce yourself shake
someone’s hand firmly look them in the
eye and state their your name clearly
for this will give you confidence and
who you are
second take your earbuds out and your
headphones off as technology continues
to grow human connection is more
important than it’s ever been before
this will give you presents and finally
something I struggle with every day
learn to say no people will ask a lot of
things from you in your life but they
ultimately come down to three main
things your money your time or your
knowledge learn to say no because this
will give you sanity adulting is just
growing up you do it every single day
you’ll continue to do it for the rest of
your life so when you wake up treat
every day as an opportunity because you
have one more day to figure out what
this whole adulting thing is all about
thank you
so we’re going to take a little break so
stay close yourself I can’t thank you
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