You know how people get mid-life crisis'? People have told me that some people even get quarter-crisis, usually in your 20s. I mean, maybe it's not a real thing but they just sort of gave it that name themselves, but I think around 20ish is when you kind of figure out who you really are so I believe it, do you?
2006-09-18 04:06:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Definitely! The reason I believe so is that in your 20s is when you are supposed to be "beginning" your life. You graduate from college and you gotta get to it. You realize you aren't prepared, or don't know what to do yet. Or you realize that you had goals set for where you are now and you haven't met it. Just recently I had a big wake up call when I realized I won't be done with school for 3.5 more years and I don't want to have a kid too late (I'm already married). EEK! I don't want to be 30 when I have a kid. Then you've also got the fear of reaching 30. You still feel young at 20, but young with a lot of responsibilities and goals to meet. So before you know it, your 20s are gone. That's what I consider a quarter-life crisis.
2006-09-18 04:19:09 · answer #1 · answered by Vicky 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This year almost all of my friends have finished with their partners, moved home, changed job, or done something else extreme. We're all 25-28 and finding life suddenly very hard to cope with. I believe that it is around this time that you start to realise that life can be a bit rubbish. For me, I was gutted at 26 when I realised that I wasn't earning £50 and hour and probably wouldn't ever be, as was my ambition from an early age, also that I didn't own my own home, decided that I'd probably never have kids because I don't earn enough or own my own home. It's a bit ghastly!
However, I'm starting to come out of the other side now and am determined to be earning at least £30K by the time I'm 30. Hopefully this is an ambition that I can achieve!
2006-09-18 04:27:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, yes, I do. When I turned 24 and wasn't married, it was a wake-up call that my life was going to turn out differently than I had imagined. That crisis precipitated a decision to return to college, and there have been many twists and turns in the road since. Mid-life crisis has been going on for years, but I'm emerging from it more sure of myself than I've ever been.
2006-09-18 08:29:07 · answer #3 · answered by Chatelaine 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OH YES... it's the time in everyone's lives where they can no longer act like an immature child, yet they haven't quite figured out their own lives yet. And that is enough to throw anyone into a crisis!
2006-09-18 04:15:39 · answer #4 · answered by TP 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely - mine came at 25. I had set many goals for myself to be achieved by 25, and when it came, none of them were even remotely complete. Some weren't realistic and some had changed, some I just hadn't worked hard enough on. It was hard to re-evaluate and decide where to go from there, but it was worthwhile in the end.
2006-09-18 04:10:47 · answer #5 · answered by Kla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I found being in my twenties the most awkward and socially demanding time. Then I got into my thirties and that was another learning curve.Now as I am in my eighties I can't remember midlife..so I can't really say if there is a quarter life... my point is
HELP me My nursing home SUCKS!!!!
2006-09-18 05:22:31 · answer #6 · answered by alfred jarry jnr 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋