freedom couldn't be heavier.

ever wondered why kids these days — even young adults like us — seem to lack “motivation” or “determination” for anything?

why we don’t have a “dream,” at least not the kind the world expects us to have?

it goes back to the ones who birthed us — the generation before ours.

their dreams were born out of need.

doctors who became one because a flu was spreading across the village.

engineers who became one because the palm roofs kept leaking every time it rained.

lawyers who became one because punishing a harasser with a fine didn’t feel cruel enough.

their ambitions came from urgency. 

from survival. 

from necessity.

marriage, family, a house — those were their “offers” to society.

but now? they treat those same things like literal offers.

“take it or leave it.”

if it works, fine. if not, we scroll past.

they had offers. we were told to have dreams.

but somehow, their “offers” became our “dreams.” sadly.

so what caused this shift?

today, the world has made everything available to everyone.

then why do we still feel empty?

because the problem isn't everything available to everyone.

the problem is everything isn't affordable to everyone.

I don’t mean just money.

marriage, family, a house — all those things may seem accessible,

but the system that surrounds them is carefully built to keep changing form.

every new “standard” is another locked door.

we live in a time where everything can be reached,

but not everything can be owned.

and that’s the part no one tells you.

it all comes down to one word, the one word that shatters its own meta:

RIGHTS.

they didn’t have them, and they suffered.

we have them, and we still suffer — just differently.

they were denied freedom.

we were handed freedom without direction.

when everyone believes they’re equal,

but only a few are allowed to feel like it,

dreams stop meaning anything.

they fought for rights because they had nothing else.

we can’t fight for dreams —

because we were never taught how to need one.

so until then,

we’ll keep scrolling past our dreams,

and calling it reality.

🙏🏽