ON BEING TWENTY - SOMETHING

I guess most of us will be able to relate to what’s written here !!
This is actually an email forward. Njoy!!

They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis."

It is when you stop going along with the crowd andstart realizing that there are many things aboutyourself that you didn't know and may not like.


You start feeling insecure and wonder where you willbe in a year or two, but then get scared because youbarely know where you are now.


You start realizing that people are selfish and that,maybe, those friends that you thought you were soclose to aren't exactly the greatest people you have evermet, and the people you have lost touch with are someof the lost important ones.


What you don't recognize is that they are realizingthat 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 towhat you thought you would be doing, or maybe you arelooking for a job and realizing that you are going tohave to start at the bottom and that scares you.


Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see whatothers are doing and find yourself judging more than usualbecause suddenly you realize that you have certainboundaries in your life and are constantly addingthings to your list of what is acceptable and whatisn't.


One minute, you are insecure and then the next,secure.You laugh and cry with the greatest force of yourlife.You feel alone and scared and confused.

Suddenly,change is the enemy and you try and cling on to thepast with dear life, but soon realize that the past isdrifting further and further away, and there is nothing to dobut stay where you are or move forward.


You get your heart broken and wonder how someone youloved could do such damage to you. Or you lie in bedand wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough that
you want to get to know better.


Or maybe you love someone but love someone else tooand cannot figure out why you are doing this because youknow that you aren't a bad person.


One night stands and random hook ups start to lookcheap. Getting wasted and acting like an idiot startsto look pathetic. You go through the same emotions andquestions over and over, and talk with your friends about the sametopics because you cannot seem to make a decision.


You worry about loans, money, the future and making alife for yourself... and while winning the race wouldbe great, right now you'd just like to be a contender!


What you may not realize is that everyone reading thisrelates to it. We are in our best of times and ourworst of times, trying as hard as we can to figurethis whole thing out.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,enough trials to make you strong,enough sorrow to keep you human,enough hope to make you happy.