What They Found

Found this article posted on facebook about people undergoing their Quarterlife Crisis. It’s a good bit of reading, but the scenarios, insights, and details described are incredibly and eerily accurate, especially to a 25-year-old not-so-recent college grad like myself.

“They can’t make any decisions, because they don’t know what they want, and they don’t know what they want because they don’t know who they are, and they don’t know who they are because they’re allowed to be anyone they want.”

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“You could always say the whole premise of education is that if you study, get good grades, acquire skills, you will have more options in a ‘career and life’ point of view. If you get a degree, you don’t have to work in a factory or have to work in a farm. That’s proving to be a huge lie, because you have people coming out of school and there are just no jobs, especially in ‘middle-class’ fields.”

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“This isolation and its private anxiety are pervasive, as is a longing for the way things were in the predictably structured eras of high school and college or university. The directionlessness and resulting immobility is made worse when twentysomethings going through the Crisis compare themselves to their peers, past and present, further convincing someone in the throes of it that they’re not only alone, but the worst kind of failure.”

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“Nothing could be more alienating to someone in the midst of a crisis than a tool like Facebook.”

The irony of that last quote isn’t lost on me. It’s a good article, give it a read here.

**Depressing Bonus**

This video is quite possibly the most cynical, darkly funny, depressing (and apparently honest) video about those that forgo the Quarterlife Crisis by moving right along with “the timeline”. Think of it as an icy blast in the collective face of chick flicks and romance novels.