Many people are famliar with a midlife crisis. We all hear stories about men who hit 50 and realize that they are not as young as they used to be. What do they do? They tend to try and make up for lost time. They go out and by the certain sport car they have always wanted, they start working out more, they leave their wife of 15 years for some young bimbo, all of these examples are "symptoms" of a midlife crisis. We read about them everywhere and we all know people who probably are going through them. It is a very common part of growing up that we are made aware of since childhood.
However, no one seems to talk about the quarter life crisis. No one prepared me for it. No one told me about it. Yet here I sit today experincing it to the fullest extent. What is it? Well it depends on who you talk to, but a generic definition is when someone turns 25 and realizes that they need to start getting their shit together because they are no longer in their early twenties and their thirties are fast approaching. It sneaks up on you and then suddenly bitch smacks you in the face. It's the time when you have to start answering the enivitable question "What do I want to do with my life?" There are no real symptoms like there are with a midlife crisis, no warning signs, nada. It can happen to anyone, even those who were so set on their career path from birth!
The problem with the quarter life crisis is that no one can tell you how to naviagate your way out of it. Not one person has a set answer to help you solve that burning question "What do I want to do with my life?" It's not that parents, family, friends don't want to help you out because if they could give you the answer they would. The only way out of the daze and confusion of the quater life crisis is to figure everything out on your own. "Turning 25 is when you discover who you really are" a friend once told me. I originally thought it was a crock of horseshit, but now four months in I am starting to realize how right this friend could be.
Therefore, this blog is dedicated to helping me find my way out of my quarter life crisis. Maybe sharing some of my experinces of how I am coping with the situation will help others navigate a bit easier through theirs. If anything maybe putting my thoughts and ideas down in writing might help me figure out exactly what I was put on this earth to do.
