The Millennial Workout Club is an admission of guilt, I am guilty of these things. I am guilty of jumping to conclusions. I am guilty of skipping to the end. I am guilty of running to a stand still. But this doesn’t stress me like everything else. I understand I’m missing some facts but who has time to collect them all? My habit of impatience does not negate my respect for waiting. The best things that can happen to us must be works of patience, but for the moment, I’m preoccupied. I’m preoccupied by the urgency that seems to have been injected like a steroid into this already whirring sand storm of a political climate. There remains no time for patience when we are walking such a fine line. And what good is patience to you when no one else is being patient? Or when your patience is taken advantage of?
The Millennial Workout Club is open to all, but I am currently writing to anyone who might feel a little like me: a little like you are too impatient to wait any longer, a little like you have all the drive and none of the space, a lot to say and nowhere to say it (apart from the obvious ‘millennial’ favourite of social media but that place is a shithole and stinks of saturation). The Millennial Workout Club is for those who couldn’t care less about jumping to conclusions, because we already know the whole story and what happens: we are the youth of the future that you wrote policies to protect and we are currently experiencing vividly your ‘protection’. I’ll jump to as many conclusions as you can, if that will urge the conversation out of this festering pit of frivolity that a few *important people*, whose names I feel confident you can fill in at your leisure, have attempted to get comfy in. I’ll skip to the end because the end is where we are now, this is what it looks like to start running out of options. I’ve been talking pretty vaguely, I wasn’t sure if I should tie my statements and opinions to events and people directly, or if it might be limiting, but I’ll add a one liner for contextual reasons: our political and social spheres have become aggressive, divisive, superficial, and lonely places, politically, the men and (few) women we have chosen to lead our globe are seemingly exponentially dangerous, we have divided and divided ourselves, and the literal earth beneath our feet is moving away from being consistently dependable towards being wholly dependant on our next move, but yeah, thank you kanye, very cool.
I am very angry all the time. It’s hard to imagine subtweets saving or changing anything meaningful. I feel disenfranchised on a colossal level. The ‘millennials’ that surround me have never been so enlightened, or ready to do anything that will move us in the right direction, but it always end up feeling as though we end up in the same place, running to a standstill after training for a marathon.
The Millennial Workout Club is for anyone who thinks they are part of the Millennial Workout Club. Following is a short, however not definitive, list of reasons you could be part of the club, and as such, buy t shirts:
- if you feel as though you also are good at jumping to conclusions/skipping to the end/running to a standstill and want to show off about this
- if you enjoy wearing political statements on your t shirts (for any reason)
- if you want to wear them ironically because you disagree with what they, and I, do and have said
