According to my therapist, i'm having, what has become known as, a quarter life crisis. This may account for at least a third of why i've been acting like a varsity student for the past 2 months, and feeling like I want to jump out of my own skin.
Apparently, people who don't experience multiple relationships & living arrangements in their 20's and are married with children before 30 are prime candidates. Typically it starts with a general feeling of "where to from here", and snowballs from there. Usually one starts behaving as if they don't have the responsibilities that are "tying them down" and often opt out of marriage around about now in search of something else. One tends to look at friends or family without the same responsibilities and wish they could live the same way.
This crisis is nowhere near as lavish as it's big brother, the "mid life crisis" which usually manifests itself in sports cars and a younger model of ones spouse. No, this is just angst and frustration and the desire to be free.
Knowing what it is, or at least being able to use it as my excuse for now, is somewhat liberating! I shall be using this one well into my 30th and 31st year.
Don't ask about the other 2 thirds - i have 2 more expensive sessions to pay for before all is revealed. Watch this space.
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