...Otherwise known as the Quarter Life Crisis, this is something that hits much closer to home for us. Characteristics may include:
feeling "not good enough" because one can't find a job that is at one's academic/intellectual level
frustration with relationships, the working world, and finding a suitable job or career
confusion of identity
insecurity regarding the near future
re-evaluation of close interpersonal relationshipsnostalgia for university or college life
tendency to hold stronger opinions
boredom with social interactions
financially-rooted stress
a sense that everyone is, somehow, doing better than you
Reading through the above characteristics is like reading a textbook on our life. So, since we're not quite ready to start a band in our non-existent garages (need to own a house first for that to happen), the only thing that has been working to cure this crisis we're in is to act like we are 5 again. And that's precisely what we did this weekend:
Building sand castles at Long Beach:
Suck on this adulthood: