Eda: Okay, somebody needs to clean the house and that includes giving Hooty a bath. Lilith, you’re up.
Lilith: Why would I clean your house?
Eda: You’re right, you don’t have to do it. Hey, remember that time you put a curse on me to force me to join a coven lead by a monster.
Lilith(annoyed): You are going to use that a lot, aren’t you?
Eda(smugly): Oh, I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you. I was falling asleep in my room in my home, completely vulnerable to the person I trusted the most putting a curse on me.
Lilith(resigned): Fine. Anything else?
Eda: Well, Amity, Willow and Gus want to throw Luz a welcome back from the human world party and you need to buy her a present.
Lilith: Let me guess, I have to do it because I used her as bait and a human shield.
Eda: You also called her my pet, and were very dismissive of her. Oh and you put a cruse on me.
Lilith(through gritted teeth): Can I use magic to clean?
Eda(grinning wickedly at her): Only if you promise not to put a curse on me.
THIS 👏🏻 WAVE 👏🏻 OF 👏🏻 NORMALIZING 👏🏻 QUEER 👏🏻 RELATIONSHIPS 👏🏻 IN 👏🏻 CARTOONS 👏🏻 IS 👏🏻 AMAZING 👏🏻 AND 👏🏻 I 👏🏻 HOPE 👏🏻 IT 👏🏻 IS 👏🏻 JUST 👏🏻 THE 👏🏻 BEGINNING 👏🏻 OF 👏🏻 A 👏🏻 NEW 👏🏻 AGE 👏🏻 OF 👏🏻 REPRESENTION 👏🏻
Eda really saw a human that wanted to learn all magic and said “on GOD we are going to give you everything I wish I had as a kid because the newer generation deserves better and shouldn’t suffer from the mistakes of a corrupt government system”
I have heard many of times people complaining about my
generation, the Millennials. We have been told that we are lazy, entitled,
rude, and selfish. We have been told time and time again that we are the worst
generation, and that we are the reason why America has gone downhill. We have “killed” many different industries that older generations have enjoyed. We are
too caught up in technology and are unable to communicate with people, unless
it is through social media and our cell phones. I understand that you believe
these ideas about us, but just because we live our lives differently does not
make these statements true.
Your generations have been able to work part-time and
to pay off your debt from school. After graduating, you were able to afford to
move out of your parent’s house. We are not able to do that. Most of us are
working low-paying jobs while tuition has increased exponentially, we are not
able to move out of our parent’s homes after graduating. Most of us do not get
jobs that are working with the degree that we went to school for, even though
we try. People believe that we do know what hard work is, and that we get
everything handed to us. When we were students in high school we were expected
to take AP or honors courses, volunteer, do a sport or a club, and also have a
part-time job. We were up from 6:00 A.M. till after 11:00 P.M. every day,
making sure that we could get our work done because that’s what was expected of
us. We were told that if we did not do these things we would not get accepted
into college, and if we didn’t go to college we were not going to do well in
life.
I have been working in retail for almost five years, I
have seen people from various generations throughout my store. When we are busy
checking people out, we always apologize for the wait. The people who say that
it’s okay and understanding are the Millennials. When someone says, “thank you” to me, I always so “no problem”, instead of “you’re welcome”. I have seen and
read that older generations get irritated and annoyed when Millennials say, “no
problem”. But, we say, “no problem” because that’s exactly what it is, it is
something that we believe is natural. We should hold doors open for others, we
should pick up items that were dropped, we should make sure our customers are
leaving satisfied. When we hear “you’re welcome” coming from older generations,
we see it as highlighting the fact that they went out of their way to help
someone. Therefore, we are not being rude we just believe that we are acting
like decent human beings, and do not need to be thanked for doing simple
things.
We use technology because it has been made available
to us. We see social media as a platform for others to hear us. We listen to
what each other has to say through these platforms, because we recognize that
everyone has a different story and opinion. We try to understand where people
are coming from, and express ourselves in the same way. We are hopeful enough
that someone is going to listen to something that we say and it’s going to
change the world in some way. We see what is wrong with America, and want to
fix it. We express how we feel through protests and social media so everyone
can see what we believe. We have learned how to use technology on our own. We
use technology and social media as a platform to show that we want to be
open-minded. What we say does matter, we are trying to make America that we
want. We are the future of America and the world, we are not clueless. We have
seen the inequality through the years in our lives and through social media
posts. We are more aware of what is happening in the world because of this
platform, and we are not turning a blind eye to the injustices that are
happening around the world.
We want to have lives like yours. We want to live in
our own place, have a job that we love and not just for the pay. We want to see
America be the best it can be. We just have a different vision of what that is,
because we have been exposed to so much information in the short time that we
have been alive.
Sincerely,
A hopeful, creative,
hard-working, exploring millennial
I know that we have had problems in
the past, but I would like to make amends. You have told me somethings that
have made me upset, angry, and scared. But, I am ready to move on from that. I
hope you can forgive me for the things I did to myself. You made it feel like I
had no other options, but from now on I would like to hear everything you have
to say. I want to hear the good things, and hopefully less terrible things. I
hope that we can work together, because let’s face it we need each other.
I need you to help me think about
what I want to say. You help me get through my different assignments in school.
You can make class easier when you come up with different comments. You create
lessons that I love and that the students I’ve worked with love. You do remarkable
things, but sometimes you are a little too hard on me. Sometimes I wish you
would go away. But I know that if you did, I wouldn’t be me. I know that you must
be hard on me sometimes so that I do my best work. You are a wonderful brain, I
just want you to stop working sometimes.
Let’s try not to go crazy when you see
comments all over a paper. Try not to think about the past, and the things that
we’ve been through that brought us down. We need to learn to move on from it,
so we can do better. We can’t move forward unless we have learned from the
past. I know I’ve hurt you in the past, but I’ll try not to anymore. I’ll
listen to you more instead of my heart. You think things through, sometimes too
much, but you do know what is best for me.
You are the piece of me that brings me to life.
Without your piece in me I wouldn’t be who I am or where I am today. You have
guided me through most of my decisions. Sometimes I haven’t listened to your
advice because my body told me otherwise. You can make me the happiest girl in
the world, but then in a week or two you can make me paranoid and scared. You
can make me talk to everyone that I know one week and the next week isolate
myself in my room and not talk to anyone. You are the holder of what I do with
my life, and I just want to live. I don’t want to be scared, angry, or upset
anymore. I want to be able to walk through a room and you tell me that it’s
okay to do so. I want you to tell me that I’m not in everyone’s way at the
grocery store. I want you to tell me that I can make mistakes without having a
meltdown. I know it may seem hard to do these things, but I see other people
doing them. I see people walking through the halls talking to whoever walks by
them. I see people at the grocery store and the mall smiling and laughing. I
see people make mistakes and not obsess over them. If they can do it, I think
we can do it too.
