We are Millennials: The Time is Now

Attention Millenials! This is a blog made just for YOU, on account of the fact that I am absolutely sick to death of wandering about trying to find all of you. It doesn't help that I mostly sit at home with my book or favorite TV show after work, and the weekends consist of wavering plans with the few people I know in the area, most of the time falling through due to an overpowering sense of apathy. That time is over! I have put my foot down! 

I hear over and over via Facebook, text messages, and yes even face to face conversations, that many of us young people, especially in the post graduation Catholic spectrum feel isolated and underwhelmed by the options given to us for real meaning in this society. Where do we meet people besides the bars?! What is our place in society other then the workplace? As far as I have found, there really isn't one. It’s time to change that.

I grew up here in Seattle, yet I consider myself a transplant. Let me explain. I moved to Texas right out of high school, and spent my formative adult years in Dallas. I went to school, got my first job, and made lifelong friends in that blistering state. The Catholic community there was incredible. There was an enormous community of “20 Somethings” as they called themselves, and the teen mass consisted of hundreds of teenagers every week. Upon moving back to Seattle I was shocked to find no equivalent, not in any church in the area!

If you are like me, you often feel like you have no community anymore, that you are in this alone. Well this is my attempt to reach you and say that it just isn’t so. It’s the biggest lie we are fed as young adults, and we cannot believe it any longer. The time for solitude is over. Connect with me, sound off on my posts, and maybe someday we can even muster the strength to get off our computer and onto our feet and have some real honest fun!

I get it, it’s rainy here. It makes it hard to get out of the house. Plus the sheer amount of effort it takes to get out and meet new people with a common interest is incredible. Where IS everyone?! That’s why I’m starting this blog. We are Millennials! We are extremely competent in social media, let’s make good use of it! Let’s dialogue, discuss our lives, our faith, our interests. What gets you fired up? What are you involved in? Let’s network and trade our ideas and resources! We are passionate and curious and tech savvy; talented, gifted, and diverse. We are brainy, spunky, artsy, introverts and extroverts, and all of us with a story to tell, battles to fight, and people we love.  It’s time to connect and build a community.

Follow my blog as I write on topics that concern all of us as young adults, from how to get involved in the community to any and all the hilarious memes I stumble upon. Email me and post your thoughts in the comment boxes!  If you like what you see share the blog on your Facebook page and Twitter, lets collect as many of us as we can and come together as a unit. We are Millennials, and when we gather, we are the force that will make a difference.

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