☕️ Alice’s Mad Tea Party Presents:
🫖 Alice Spills the Tea: The Boomer Resentment - Bitterness Ain’t a Legacy
Alice swirled her tea, watching the liquid spiral like the vortex of rage some Boomers get into anytime they hear the words "student loan forgiveness," "affordable housing," or "fair wages." She sighed dramatically. “Ah, yes. There exists among them a rather loud group, the ‘I suffered, so you should too’ club. And my dears, it is exhausting.”
She leaned in, her voice tinged with both pity and exasperation. “Why is it, I wonder, that some of these folks—not all, of course!—are so personally offended when someone today gets a hand up, an opportunity, or—heaven forbid—something they didn’t have back in their day? They sneer at younger generations, not because they don’t work hard, but because they dare to demand better.” Alice shook her head.
“They grumble about ‘entitlement’ while conveniently forgetting how many advantages they had. Their college tuition was practically a rounding error. Wages actually covered things like rent. They bought homes for the price of a used car today. And yet, if anyone now gets even a sliver of relief, it’s suddenly ‘unfair’? Darling, please.”
Alice raised a brow, tapping her teacup with finality. “This, my dears, is the kind of bitterness that rots society from the inside. We should all want future generations to have it better, not worse. The world changes, evolves—as it should! And if you’re sitting there, grumbling that ‘nobody helped me, so nobody should get help now’—oh honey, that’s not a flex, that’s a cry for therapy.”
She took a slow, deliberate sip. “So, I beg you—never become that person. Be the good kind of Boomer. The one who wants progress, celebrates when others thrive, and understands that lifting others up does not take anything away from you. Bitterness ages you faster than time itself. Let it go, darling.”
She grinned, raising her tea cup with a flourish. “Now, shall we toast to not becoming a relic of resentment and not carrying around resentment heavier than the national debt?” "Salute to our mental health and our wellbeing!"
