Just because you are useful now, doesn't mean you will be forever.

You know, telling the truth isn’t necessarily putting someone down.

As a Millennial (born 2001, so is that millennial?), I never understood participation trophies, because my school never did them. What are they?

For example, you join a contest. They hand out trophies to literally everybody. When you look at your trophy, it doesn't say "# Place". But it says "Participation Award".

Basically a trophy you get for just being there.

Why?

Probably just to make you feel like you were involved or at least achieved something.

No you're gen z

Oh ok. I always get them confused for some reason. This generation thing makes no sense to me.

2000 is gen z

Got it. Thanks

No prob

Okay you got me. She is unique and minimally useful, but quite possibly only in the short term unless she is smart, witty, and challenges me intellectually.

But again...everything that is unique isn’t necessarily useful.

(I got that image from user templates - I searched unique)
I do actually agree with your point (I was just joking), It's like the contestants on those "Got Talent" shows, where they have talents and skills, but they're not exactly useful skills.

Exactly. They’re cool to watch and sometimes they’re fun...as with your picture...but useful, not really.

There’s a difference between unique and being broken. A unique version of this would be a spork to me. 🙂

But when you think about it, a spork is unique but not terribly useful. Have you tried to use the sporks they give you at KFC? The forks are too long to be useful for scooping up mashed potatoes and too short to really spear anything. They are actually useless.

There is a positive and negative to everything

Agreed. Everything in life is a trade-off. We balance benefits against costs daily without even realizing it.