Lately I’ve been a bit taken aback by some repugnant behaviors of entitlement both online and in person. I see it on social media, the news, and in my own personal interactions with people in my environment. The short of it is that I hear people complain to damn much, everywhere.

TOO DAMN MUCH. IS LIFE REALLY THAT F-ING BAD?! REALLY?!

I was reading an article about a 25-year old Yelp employee millennial named Talia Jane who got fired from her job for writing a diatribe to her CEO, Jeremy Stoppelman. She was complaining that her menial salary as a customer service rep making $725 biweekly was barely enough to survive, seeing as 80% of her income went to paying her rent. I’d say personally she got off easy if she found a place for $1200 in the bay area! She got her online due when people discovered her Instagram posts with her drinking expensive bourbon.

Another person I encountered had said that they were struggling in their work, in their relationships, and with decisions they’d made. Sure, I completely understand, I have my own regrets and mistakes, who doesn’t? It’s one thing to live a normal life with struggles, tribulations, and trials – but it’s another to be an entitled, snarky complainer who blames the world for the state of their “sorry” condition. This person simply couldn’t be appreciative of the fact that they were living in a country without violence and mass hunger issues, that they had a roof over their head (a nice one), a job, a car, clothes on their back, and money in their pockets. To this person, happiness was a constant search in the external things of the world  – when the true problem was finding happiness within himself.

It’s pretty simple, if you think about it.

It’s greed, pure and simple. This generation suffers largely from the static, entitled, snarky thinking caused by a world that taught us that we could do anything we put our minds to. It’s a true idea, that you can accomplish what you put your mind to, but no one is gonna hand it to you. Ah, no one told the millennials that! The sad thing is, it’s the generation after the millennials that currently are honing the skills to become far higher achievers than their immediate predecessors. Yet, here are millennials like the Yelp employee above who is looking for a handout to support her lavish lifestyle. It’s greed. It’s wanting what you don’t have – and in the millennial sense, are too lazy to have even though you think you’re entitled to it somehow.

I’m sick and tired of people (mostly millennials) bitching about what they don’t have, why their life is in shambles, how they are “struggling” in life, and so forth. I see one thing in common in all of the people who have this voice – it’s that they see a problem and want to vent about it – that’s fine, but they consistently are the kind of people who simply do not have the desire to take action and drive their lives. They are the kind of people who wished the status quo could improve with minimal if any effort. They wonder why they do the same things every day and encounter the same results in their lives. These are the people who cannot appreciate the numerous blessings that are already in their lives. These are the people who only see what they don’t have; they only see what others have and want it for themselves without the effort and risk involved.

My message to all the millennials who complain of their station in life in ANY f-ing way (especially those of us who are in the Bay Area) – get over yourself. You chose this life, so don’t be upset that it’s not the life you wanted it to be. Go complain to the kid in Zimbabwe who hasn’t eaten for days and is wondering where mom is. Go complain to the Syrian refugee on the boat between Turkey and Greece about how much the rent is in San Francisco. Go complain to the half-blind kid in Mumbai about how you struggle to cover your mortgage while raising a family with 2.5 kids.

The next person I hear complain about how bad their life is will absolutely hear a handful from me.