millennials need to own their ish
be a sinner, but plz stop excusing ur bs
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I’ll make this rant brief.
As I’ve been reading through Lasch’s body of work, one of the recurring themes is the inability of the pathological narcissist to take responsibility for her errors and to be willing to even attempt to amend her ways. Among my millennial peers (myself included), we tend to look for someone else—whether an actual person or an abstract system—on whom to blame our mistakes…that is, if we even acknowledge our mistakes.
Some of us live in a state of denial, claiming that those who call us out on our ish are gaslighting or victim-blaming. And there are some of us who will own up to our mistake by publicly flagellating ourselves and vowing to #DoBetter…while never actually doing very much to change our ways. Our public display of repentance is usually a front for not actually being sorry for our mistakes—it’s more a PR stunt than anything.
The reality is, we are all sinners. It is normal to make mistakes. Thanks to original sin, to be human is to be “problematic.”