Hush!: Quarter-Life Crisis

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Quarter-Life Crisis

Today, I have stumped upon a thread when surfing the forum. (I was really bored with studying process control!)

Quarter-Life Crisis...

Perhaps, to most of us, we only came across the term mid-life crisis. Interestingly, (maybe i was slow or what) there's also something known as Quarter-Life Crisis. Quarter-Life refers to people of age 21-29. From the description of QLC in Wikipedia, i think i have stepped into a quarter-life crisis.. not only me but seems like it occurs to most people around me. QLC seems like inevitable phase we all have to go through. Somehow, everything (including many recent conflicts in school) can be explained by this. We are all suffering from QLC. Or maybe, just begin suffering from this.

Insecurity about near future.. always feeling that everyone is somehow doing better than you... financially rooted stress...frustration with relationship.. These description sounded so familiar.

The FYP conflict.. reveals the insecurities of everyone. Although I never expressed strongly on what had happened, I was upset and frustrated about the unfair competition that was started. Upset and frustrated about the kind of trust and openess we had for each other... But everyone is feeling insecure. Nobody want their project to be snatched away, nobody likes to be slower than their peers, nobody likes to be behind despite saying that they love to keep in comfortable pace. But peer pressure is pushing everyone to step up their pace instead. How weary is that? Is everyone hiding something, including the one closer to you? How much can you trust the people around you? Insecurities...

Anyway, read about OLC.. its real interesting stuffs. We might not be able to avoid OLC.. but at least cope with it was the the best we can do.

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