The Quarter-Life Crisis

A great little article to know you are not alone. Everyone at our age is scared and confused out of their minds. Article sent to me via Cindy!

For those in their twenty-something's...This puts it all into words
perfectly. They call it the Quarter-life Crisis."

It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that
there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn't know and may or may
not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year
or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends
that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you

have ever met and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most
important ones. What you do not realize is that they are realizing that too
and are not really cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that they are as
confused as you.

You look at your job. It is not even close to what you thought you would be
doing or maybe you are looking for one and realizing that you are going to
have to start at the bottom and are scared.

You miss the comforts of college, of groups, of socializing with the same
people on a constant basis. But then you realize that maybe they weren't so
great after all.

You are beginning to understand yourself and what you want and do not want.
Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find
yourself judging a bit more than usual because suddenly you realize that you
have certain boundaries in your life and add things to your list of what is
acceptable and what is not.

You are insecure and then secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest force
of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly change is the
enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life
but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away and
there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.

You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such
damage to you or you lay in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent
enough to get to know better.

You love someone but maybe love someone else too and cannot figure out why
you are doing this because you are not a bad person. One night stands and
random hook ups start to look cheap and getting wasted and acting like an
idiot starts to look pathetic.

You go through the same emotions and questions over and over and talk with
your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a
decision. You worry about loans and money and the future and making
a life for yourself and while winning the race would be great, right now
you'd just like to be a contender! What you may not realize is that
everyone relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times,
trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out.