Right between functional adults (like our parents, for most time) and the immature 20-year-olds still struggling from a teenage hangover, lays the elder millennial. 

We are the generation who know our way around a bar menu, but still haven’t learned the art of getting eight hours of sleep. We know skincare is important, but ask us to drink lemon water for more than a day, and we roll our eyes like a teenager. And we still don’t know how to file those pesky tax forms. 

So finally we created a few terms for every feeling that plagues our overworked, underfucked, sleep-deprived, binge-watcher selves: 

These words may not make it to Oxford’s dictionary, but they do describe our lives pretty accurately. 

Design credit: Nupur Agrawal