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Friday, February 19, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Overcoming my Quarter Life Crisis
What is a quarterlife crisis?
The quarterlife crisis is essentially a period of anxiety, uncertainty and inner turmoil that often accompanies the transition to adulthood. The quarterlife crisis is a term applied to the period of life immediately following the major changes of adolescence, usually ranging from the early twenties to the early thirties. The term is named by analogy with mid-life crisis.
Characteristics of Quarter Life Crisis include the following:
- Realizing that the pursuits of one's peers are useless
- Confronting their own mortality
- Watching time slowly take its toll on their parents, only to realize they are next
- Insecurity regarding the fact that their actions are meaningless
- Insecurity regarding present accomplishments
- Re-evaluation of close interpersonal relationships
- Lack of friendships or romantic relationships, sexual frustration, and involuntary celibacy
- Disappointment with one's job
- Nostalgia for university, college, high school or elementary school life
- Tendency to hold stronger opinions
- Boredom with social interactions
- Loss of closeness to high school and college friends
- Financially-rooted stress (overwhelming college loans, unanticipatedly high cost of living, etc.)
- Loneliness, depression and suicide
- Desire to have children
- A sense that everyone is, somehow, doing better than you
- Frustration with social skills
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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