Sunday, April 24, 2011
My quarter life crisis
I am about 4 months shy of 25 years of age and I have been feeling aimless and unsatisfied with everything I am doing and with life in general. I'm not interested in anything and not interested in making anything interesting to me. I have been feeling really useless and bad about myself, and only focusing on all my flaws. I am in a rut and I can't get out of it. Then someone mentioned something about a quarter life crisis and I thought... maybe that's what this is. So I go online and try to diagnose myself....
Below are some symptoms I found online of a quarter life crisis:
- feeling "not good enough" because one can't find a job that is at one's academic/intellectual level (CHECK)
- frustration with relationships, the working world, and finding a suitable job or career (CHECK)
- confusion of identity(CHECK)
- insecurity regarding the near future(CHECK)
- insecurity regarding present accomplishments(CHECK)
- disappointment with one's job(CHECK)
- nostalgia for university, college, or high school life(CHECK)
- financially-rooted stress(CHECK)
- loneliness(CHECK)
- a sense that everyone is, somehow, doing better than you(CHECK)
I have all the above symptoms...>__<
Below are extracts from urbandictionary.com's definition of a quarter life crisis:
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Usually occurs sometime in your twenties, a few years out of school and still feel as though you're waiting for you're life to begin.
For most people it will be arround twenty five years of age (give or take a year or two) as this tends to be when you're way of thinking is starting to change beyond that of a high school or college student.
It's an age where a lot people start developing a more realistic outlook in life and start feeling that if they haven't accomplished certain things in life they thought they would by then that they may never (Even though this isn't true and they still have a long time to attain their goals and dreams).
Some people will respond to a quarter life crisis by rushing into various landmark type goals in life (ie, getting married, moving out from your parents house, getting your first house, getting your first real job, having kids).
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Everything above is true for me. I think I really am having a quarter life crisis!!
Sighs.. what if everything I think I want now is because I am having a quarter life crisis and if I wasn't having a quarter life crisis, I won't be wanting those things? This is kind of worrying.. I think I probably need to go find how to cure this now... but my quarter life crisis is making me feel so uninterested in finding a cure for myself. sighs...
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