Sometimes we see others around us who are in pain and even if we don’t really understand their pain but then again they don’t always understand ours either. You can call us the broken generation; the generation where everyone is in different levels of pain. I don't know one person with a functioning family. Our parent’s generation is the generation of divorce. It’s rarer to meet someone my age with parents that are together and if they are together you have yelling and door slamming to look forward to three times a week. It’s awful because our parents still believe in love even if they are the ones who harshly taught us that love is bullshit; it's only ever existed in stories. Our parents wonder why we are so dark and the answer is because we can’t see the light.
We are the generation that doesn’t care if we live or die. The amount of times I've heard the words "I want to die" come from classmates’ lips would shock adults. We may sometimes be joking but most of the people who do say those words have thought about it at least once. The suicide rates for middle and high schoolers have never been higher and even if we don’t kill ourselves we could care less about dying. We would welcome death with open arms and all we would think is “Damn, I kind of wanted to do that one thing, oh well at least I won't have to go to school tomorrow”. If we don’t think about death we will think about feeling alive and turn to drugs to get that feeling. We destroy ourselves to feel something because we are becoming numb to everything. The millennials may be depressed but we are broken and dead inside.