jueves, septiembre 23
I'm Overclempt
First thing. I made the mistake of opening an e-mail from my oft-mentioned friend Bird. It was another chain mail, which I thought were outlawed by the terms and agreement for MSN hotmail, but apparently that is only an empty threat. Then again I can't say I'm too familiar with all the ramifications of the t & a. Either way I digress, and the matter at hand was the e-mail about the Quarter Life crisis that 20-somethings go through. I'm going to actually paste it on to here.
They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis." It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about yourself that you didn't know and 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 don't recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren't really cold, catty, mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.
You look at your job...and it is not even close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares you.
Ok so it goes on like this for a while and all it leads me to think is- isn't 20 something a bit old to be feeling and worrying on such negative things. Sounds like Teen angst, which was 'tre chic' when I was teenager, has followed my generation up the age ladder and now has been transformed into the Quarter Life Crisis. I'd like to say I do not relate with anything in the little tear-jerking write up. I have no idea where I will be in a year, and I also have no idea why this should scare me or make feel insecure. The passage above signals the commonality of this problem so shouldn't that alone resolve any fears- if we are all going through the same thing doesn't that constitute that the circumstances are surmountable? Either way what's the use in worrying it produces no results, it seems to me that it is the antithesis of action. Doing things are fun and exciting and doing nothing is not, generally speaking. Worrying has to be a lot closer to doing nothing than action. I'd like to be proven wrong otherwise.
I have more to say, not on that stupid pity party letter Bird sent me, but on other things. Time to go watch movies for school credit. Ahhh the liberal arts emphasis has never been so superfluous.
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They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis." It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about yourself that you didn't know and 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 don't recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren't really cold, catty, mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.
You look at your job...and it is not even close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares you.
Ok so it goes on like this for a while and all it leads me to think is- isn't 20 something a bit old to be feeling and worrying on such negative things. Sounds like Teen angst, which was 'tre chic' when I was teenager, has followed my generation up the age ladder and now has been transformed into the Quarter Life Crisis. I'd like to say I do not relate with anything in the little tear-jerking write up. I have no idea where I will be in a year, and I also have no idea why this should scare me or make feel insecure. The passage above signals the commonality of this problem so shouldn't that alone resolve any fears- if we are all going through the same thing doesn't that constitute that the circumstances are surmountable? Either way what's the use in worrying it produces no results, it seems to me that it is the antithesis of action. Doing things are fun and exciting and doing nothing is not, generally speaking. Worrying has to be a lot closer to doing nothing than action. I'd like to be proven wrong otherwise.
I have more to say, not on that stupid pity party letter Bird sent me, but on other things. Time to go watch movies for school credit. Ahhh the liberal arts emphasis has never been so superfluous.
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