Now this is the FCB podcast network. Just Listen to Yourself presents I'm just saying with Davis. A recent viral TikTok video of a young woman complaining about the difficulties of a nine to five job is making a big cultural splash. In the video, the twenties ish woman can be seen crying, lamenting about the challenges of supporting oneself with a nine to five job that, with the commute, barely leaves her time for herself. She's been getting a lot of grief from all over. Many are calling her spoiled and soft and pointing to the video as a symbol of the ill preparedness of gen Z. A lot of people are just playing ridiculing her. To be fair, the young woman is throwing a youthful tantrum about the unfortunate reality of adult life, but she's actually not doing anything the rest of us having done at some point in our lives. Life is a series of deaths and rebirths. We all have that moment when we die to our childish selves and the veil is lifted on a post pubescent world. Then we die to our teen angst and are reborn as budding adults and so on and so on, and death is a painful process, symbolically or otherwise. It causes pain when we are ripped from the comfort of one existence and shock with a far less idealistic world in front of us. It hurts, It makes us mad, it makes us feel oppressed, but it also often motivates us to be better, work harder, and build ourselves a life we want. The only difference between us and the young woman in the TikTok video is she had the technology to record her tantrum. But what she is going through is a necessary part of life and we shouldn't degrade her experience. That type of despair leads to personal reinvention and innovation. It's a necessary step in growing up. Yes, this young woman opened herself up for the verbal abuse by recording a very personal moment and welcoming all the attention that comes with the social media. But let's not despise her despair. This is what being an adult looks like. Actually it's not really pretty. It's a lot of deep wrestling with discontentment and purpose. Welcome to the real world, TikTok girl, You're gonna be okay. I'm Kira Davison I'm just saying. This has been a presentation of the FCB podcast Network, where Real Talk lives. Visitors online at fcbpodcasts dot com.
