Monday, April 17, 2006
Well, assuming that we have an average life span of 80 to 100 yrs old, being a 20yr old means i am at my quarter life, so are those of you who will drop by my blog from time to time. If you suffer from any of the symptoms i am going to describe below, it is not an coincidence. It might mean that u are going thru a quarter-life crisis. Well, from whay i leanrt in sch, if u cant identify a risk, u cant formulate a control to prevent, detect or cure it. The scenarios described below are taken from wikipedia and a website: http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~shane/text/quarterlifecrisis.html 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 do not realize is that they are realizing that too and are not really cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you. You miss the comforts of college, of groups, of socializing with the same people on a constant basis. But then you realize that maybe they weren't so great after all.
According to wikipedia, the characteristics of quarter-life crisis are:
Those in red are the symptoms are are more likely to strike us cos we are still studying...and there will be an elaboration of the characterisitics below, as i lift from the website by an unknown author: