Tim Urban's Gen Y Are Unhappy People

I agree with Tim Urban’s message, Gen Y are unhappy people, and the way he set it up makes perfect sense by giving us an equation and the explanation, “When the reality of someone’s life is better than they had expected, they’re happy. When reality turns out to be worse than the expectation, they’re unhappy” (Urban 6). We Gen Y’s have set our expectations so high that it seems kind of impossible to reach. Alexa Tanney said that when children were asked what job they wanted at career day the answers were ridiculous, “kids in my class lined up to be presidents or astronauts, and one kid said he wanted to be the one who made pigs actually fly” (Tanney 4). These children were setting themselves up for failure, not everyone can become president and once they realize that they will be unhappy with their lives.
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We Gen Y’s are too busy comparing ourselves to the other people in our life that we do not notice we are on the right path. We don’t notice our accomplishment all we notice is: “ College loans floating over us, other people’s accomplishments flooding out social media feeds our parents breathing down our necks […] of course we’re going to be anxious and depressed” ( Tanney 23). We are depressed because we are only looking at the negatives in our lives and we ignore all the good things we have done so far. It does not help that our parents constantly fed us the line “you are special” ever since we can remember. What ties everything together is social media bombarding us nonstop, it is no surprise depression is such a common thing in the gen Y’s. To achieve happiness we need to stop excepting so much and just live in the moment, work hard and do not compare ourselves to anyone, like this we will focus on us and our achievements. We do not need to be the lost generation we can be a generation that