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