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Just listen to yourself presents.

I'm just saying with Cura Davis.

A recent viral TikTok video of a young woman complaining about the difficulties of a 9 to 5 job is making a big cultural splash.

In the video, the 20s-ish woman can be seen crying, lamenting about the challenges of supporting

oneself with a 9 to 5 job that with a 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

plain 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 shocked 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

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