The part of life in your early 20s can be difficult especiall when u just left your teen years behind. Many people may find themselves in a identity crisis the same way from child to being a teen. and some may expereince the after effect of a failed teen love, disappointments ect. Furthermore this is the time where u enter the workforce, a different environment from your carefree school days
As u can see there are so many things all coming together in play at the same time
As u grow older, u will accept yourself as an adult
It is just the first of 3, When u reach your mid 30s or 40, u will expereince mid life crisis and after 50, old age loneliness.
Regrets about the past. Yearning for work that is spiritually fulfilling, not just lucrative. Misgivings about relationships It turns out that many 20-somethings are wrestling with the kinds of issues long associated with middle age. They're having their "American Beauty" moment a decade or two ahead of schedule.Besides the classic midlife symptoms, 20-somethings have a few others particular to their generation. Having come of age in a period of spectacular boom and bust, they have extraordinarily high, often unmet expectations of wealth and success. The pressure to succeed young and fast is complicated by the instability of careers in the digitocracy. The king-of-the-world generation suddenly suspects the boat they're in might be the Titanic.
Recent research shows that it is becoming a widespread phenomenon around the world and books have been written on the subject
he quarter-life crisis is a term, coined circa November 1998 in Toronto, applied to the period of life immediately following adolescence, usually beginning around college graduation. The term is named by analogy with Mid-life crisis.
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1 Emotional aspects
2 Financial and social aspects
3 Other theories
4 Popular culture
5 External links
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Emotional aspects
Characteristics of this crisis are:
confusion of identity
insecurity regarding the near future
insecurity regarding present accomplishments
re-evaluation of close interpersonal relationships
disappointment with one's job
nostalgia for college life
tendency to hold stronger opinions
boredom with social interactions
financially-rooted stress
loneliness
These emotions and insecurities are not uncommon at this age, nor at any age in adult life. In the context of the quarter-life crisis, however, they occur shortly after a young person-- usually an educated professional, in this context-- enters the "real world". After the initial excitement of adult life and its responsibilities wears off, some individuals find themselves in a world of career stagnation and extreme insecurity.
As the emotional ups-and-downs of adolesence and college life subside, many in the quarter-life crisis experience a "graying" of emotion. While emotional interactions may be intense in a high school or college environment-- where everyone is roughly the same age and hormones are highly active-- these interactions become subtler and more private in adult life.
Furthermore, a contributing factor to this crisis may be the difficulty in adapting to a workplace environment. In college, professors' expectations are clearly given and students receive frequent feedback on their performance in their courses. By contrast, in a workplace environment, a person may be, for some time, completely unaware of a boss's displeasure with his performance, or of his colleagues' dislike for his personality. Office politics require interpersonal skills that are largely unnecessary for success in an educational setting. Emerging adults eventually learn these social skills, but this process-- sometimes compared to learning another language-- is often highly stressful.
