Long Weekend Musings

I'm not sure what the final staw was....be it the premiere (at least to my knowledge) of "What About Brian" last night...the fact that this past Saturday marks exactly one month until my 26th birthday...or if it was just that I had a total of four hours round trip to the cottage in the car on my own to mull it all over, but I think it has kind of hit me.

The phenomenon that's sweeping the nation!

Maybe this started a few months back when I was discussing with a friend of mine how it's kinda weird how we're stuck in "normal" jobs...how we had felt since we were young that we were destined for more, but somehow that got sidetracked.

Maybe it started waaaaay back in 2003, when I had a job locked up before convocation, a car of my own not long after that, and found myself living in the big city on my own dime barely 4 months after I wrote my last exam at Queen's. Basically having hit FastForward on the road to adulthood, knowing full well that I most certainly hadn't gotten everything out of my system.

Well, I kind of feel like it's been a bit of a Pause since then.

Yes, I've changed jobs, I've done almost infinitely more travelling in the last couple of years than I ever had, but I really haven't advanced my life much...

The funny part? I'm not entirely sure I want to.

This winter I've found myself fighting with my friends over who is "less of an adult", and then just a matter of days later (with many of the same people present) discussing RRSPs, financial advisors and real estate agents... it seems that life in your 20's these days is tantamount to a kind of purgatory.... a pretty fun purgatory, granted, but purgatory none the less...

Here we have, the Quarter-Life Crisis.

I don't really know what it means, but I seem to understand it as a "What Now?" kind of situation, punctuated with a fair amount of "Not Yet."

For whatever that's worth...