YOU JUST GOt SERVED A Millennial’s Guide to Truth and Reality
Chapter 1: New Beginnings
EXPECTATIONS: GOALS
Goals galore, I’m ready to score Get ready, Because I’m coming to the fore
REALITY: Effort? No thanks PRO-TIP : “It’s not that I don’t like working. It’s just I’d rather get more money, but for less work. Zero work would be ideal.”
Oh, hold up now, There’s hard work involved? Nah, Changed my mind, I’m not here for a bore.
EXPECTATIONS: STAR STUDENT
Gonna get that A grade, When around comes the new term
REALITY: SLEEP
Sleeping in is just great, Distinction disaffirmed.
EXPECTATIONS: ABSOLUTE FOCUS!
Look at me, I’m ready for a challenge Run tests on me, I’m such a multi-talent
REALITY: JUST ONE MORE EPISODE...
Save the speech For the Internet you scavenge, You’ll never be free When Netflix makes you absent
EXPECTATIONS: INDEPENDENCE
Graduate, Make all the money
REALITY: SPEED DIAL
Call up my parents, I’m a starving little baby
EXPECTATIONS: HEALTHY HABITS
It’s a new day, It’s a fresh start
REALITY: SMOKE 24 / 7
Who am I kidding, I’m as good as a fart
EXPECTATIONS: PIOUS
Gonna start to pray, all day everyday, Find religion, Go on a charity mission
EXPECTATIONS: POINTLESS
Well this didn’t work out. Time to play!
Chapter 2: Pat yourself on the back! You’ve accomplished so much! Just another 3/4 work left to actually do.
EXPECTATIONS: FAST FOOD DETOX
I will never be part of the system, The Golden Arches will never take my freedom.
REALITY: Can’t fight the mac-hine
Then again, Nuggets please. And mmm, maybe a little McFlurry.
EXPECTATIONS: DEBt-Free
Gonna live the life of a baller.
REALITY: Indebted
Gonna live the life of a baller.
EXPECTATIONS: CELEBRITY ME
I’ve been anything but ordinary, Before you know it, I’m a celebrity
REALITY: NOBODY Cares
Zip it about your speciality, All we hear is “Me me me me” No one wants a show on your reality, Real life doesn’t need to be MTV
Chapter 3 What’s the point? You’ve accomplished so much! Just another 3/4 work left to actually do.
EXPECTATIONS: CRITICAL OBJECTIVITY
I am my own man, I stand strongly, Avalanches come but they part Right before me
reality: ouch
Hey, That’s not nice. Say sorry.
EXPECTATION: Leonardo Dicaprio
Hey, That’s not nice. Say sorry.
REALITY: Michael cera
Enough with your fantasy of to-go fame, When all you are is quiet and lame, Boy you don’t got a throne Just keep on walking in your little friend zone
EXpectations: Bookworm
Some things are simply best understood through literature.
REALITY: EDUCATION BY MOVIES
Unless all you know is what you see and hear, The screen’s made your mind far too miniature.
EXpectations: TECH DETOX
So much to experience, All we do is look at our screens, Keep away my iPhone, So I can keep things real.
REALITY: 1 PERCENT DISORDER
Charge like a rocket, I’m feeling this anxiety, A race to the socket, Dammit, low battery.
TO be continued. because you’re all FOREVER whining