The Pressure of Being Successful Young

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Being a member of Generation Z in America can be extremely intimidating. Throughout the years, Gen-Z has found unconventional means to achieve success, such as leveraging their personality in vlogs, streaming themselves playing video games, or even living a luxurious lifestyle. Now, it is common to see young people being in such a rush to move out of their parents' homes after graduating from high school, or with a very nice car and other materialistic items. As someone a part of the Generation Z demographic, watching someone younger or your age accomplish all of these things before you may easily make you feel behind or as if you are not doing enough, which is what most of the generation feels. 

You already deal with enough stress and confusion trying to figure out what you want to do with your life and navigate adulthood as a young person, so it can be even more frustrating when you're intimidated by the pressure of having the success of a 30-year-old by the age of 21. It appears that most Gen-Zers believe they must accomplish ten times more to be successful as quickly as possible, which is not natural. Your twenties are the years when you're intended to fail and learn, not have everything figured out, and may still live at home. Instead of being normalized, it is frowned upon, which causes young people to hurry out on their own much sooner in order to prove something to their friends and strangers rather than doing it for themselves. 

As Generation Z, we've grown up watching the rise of social media, and because we've become so comfortable with it, we've discovered ways to utilize it both to benefit and harm us.

We were the first generation to find out how to earn a life off of social media and how to use it to showcase our skills and gain chances.

However, we are always comparing ourselves to strangers online, which can frequently lead us to accomplish more than we need to. Being too engrossed in social media disconnects you from reality. That's when we forget we're all unique individuals with our own stories, and we shouldn't compare ourselves to strangers online. Growing up in the late 2010s, technological advancement was still in its early stages. As Generation Z, we grew up being able to live our lives by using our imaginations, being physically present, and also with technology, but kids nowadays have iPads in front of them at all times and barely play outside anymore.

For the average person, Millennials had a completely different experience as young adults than we have. During the 2010s, despite being a decade of technological growth, a phone was solely utilized for communication, which is clearly no longer the case. At the time, Millennials' expectations in real life were lower.

They came from a hardworking family and simply wanted to attend college, get a good job, and find a place to live. At the time, it was not possible to effortlessly make money from anything with a phone. Even musicians had to work much harder to be seen. Millennials now look to Gen-Z for direction in this new way of life since they do not completely grasp how to navigate it. 

The wide range of money available through a phone has transformed everything, both the better and the worse.

Unfortunately, As young adults, we don't have the opportunity to see life from a typically normal perspective, but it is much easier for everyone to succeed in their chosen career path.