Today I watched a Youtube video from Estee Lalonde where she spoke about having a quarter life crisis. I found this video so refreshing as I feel that it is something that a lot of people experience in their twenties.
I myself am in the later part of my twenties and I would definitely say that I have experienced these types of thoughts and feelings, you see when you are younger, time seems endless. You feel like you have all of the time in the world and that things will just magically work out, that you'll get that perfect job, that you'll meet the right person, that you'll have the money to afford the type of lifestyle that you want. The truth is, the older you get the more you realise that nothing is guaranteed and thats when the panic sets in!
I remember being twenty. I didn't really have much of an idea of what I wanted to do with my life, I drifted through my A Levels and I did alright-ish.... well, as well as you can do when you spend most of the time in the common room or at the McDonalds drive-thru....
The truth was that I had no goal, no direction, no master plan. I went and visited a few universities but nothing really caught my eye so I didn't go. This is a decision that I do now regret, I wish that I had been more academically focused and that I had thought a bit more about my future and what I wanted from it. As the years passed I convinced myself, oohhhh I'm to young for this and that, maybe when I'm older, maybe next year, but then, without really noticing it was next year and then the year after that and the one after that. The pressures of what do I want to do with my life changed into when do I move out? and when should I start saving for my deposit? Now as I sit here the worries have changed to when should I have a baby?
I guess what I am trying to say is there is always going to be something to worry about, something to panic about and something to worry yourself to sleep at night wondering "Am I doing what I should be doing at my age?
The truth is that I think without saying it, everyone feels some element of this pressure and I think that we are the people that put the biggest pressure on ourselves.
