One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

by Kate Kennedy

think about how pop songs and boy bands mismanaged my expectations, and I cared way too much about male validation, because regardless of how much time they said God had spent on me, I hadn’t spent enough on myself yet.

We planned our lives without a lot of information, making key life decisions more grounded in traditions, but are now in a world that’s inundated with information and, therefore, surrounded by opportunities that didn’t exist when we were planning our dreams.

Sometimes when we get together now, we laugh about how seriously we took ourselves. But that’s the thing about girlhood. You and your friends have to take yourselves seriously, because no one else will.