Good Mythical Mayhem | Debunking Falsehoods about Youth and Young Adults
Good Mythical Mayhem | Debunking Falsehoods about Youth and Young Adults by Alex Hardt, Associate Pastor to Youth and Young Adults “Young Adults are Lazy and full of Apathy” “Generation Z is all about Selfies, themselves, and being Self Absorbed ” “Emerging Adults have no motivation, no purpose, they lack the drive” Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.- 1 Timothy 4:12 THEY ARE LAZY Perhaps the most common slander on today’s emerging adults is that they’re “slackers.” Many people believe that 20-somethings avoid work whenever possible, preferring to leech off their parents for as long as they can get away with it like some sort of blood sucking parasite. The belief is that young adults have an inflated sense of entitlement (fa sho) and that they expect work to be fun — and if work isn’t fun, they don’t want to do it #lamejob. Party! Perhaps young people have an unrealis