Demographically speaking, I’m a Gen-Z, but I grapple to relate with the Gen-Z. The term is thrown around a lot, almost like a character stereotype. But, what is Gen-Z really like? Entitled, lazy, anxious, depressed, clueless, and delulu were some common adjectives that were revealed when I put up an Instagram poll, raising the question to my diverse group of 2,580 followers.
Through conversations with individuals my age, or Gen-Z, so to say, I’ve come across two kinds of people—those who have their shit together too well, and those who don’t. Gen-Z has been slandered for more reasons than one—being social media addicts, entitled, hypersensitive, privileged, lazy, and more. Gen-Z has been christened as the ‘saddest’ and ‘laziest’ generation to date, multiple times. While this rhetoric cannot be generalised, the ubiquitous perception is reflective of a problem that is prevailing in Gen-Z more than any other generation before—a mental health epidemic.