I reached home at 7 PM today, and realized, I had no energy to even step into the kitchen for a glass of water. As usual I shouted "AMMA Water..." And zoooooooinkkkk came a glass of chilled water. Drank it, didn't speak a word, and rushed into my room to open my books to read. Meanwhile dad came with a few doubts about using Excel sheets. Patience running out, I tried explaining, but it was hard. I felt like I was teaching a cat to swim ! I ended up shouting :D. Heard a few lectures from them on how to behave. I quietly heard them (I knew I was wrong.) Later, went for dinner and got back to my books. Suddenly I realized, I had to complete some stuff for work. And boom I was in front of the comp.
THATS the LIFE OF TWENTY TWO PLUS IN BANGALORE.
Sitting in my room, I started thinking of how life has changed in two years. A "happy go lucky" me in college, cool-headed during examinations, life was just about studying a day or two before an examination, and chilling for the rest of the time. The sole aim in life was to get good grades. And it now looks like the easiest part of life :D
I came across this phenomenon called the "Quarter life Crisis", when one of my cousins shared with me a link on it. I call it a phenomenon, because its prevalent in everyone in the age group of 20 - 30, no matter who. Its a transitional phase of life, where we find ourselves suddenly out into the open world, with a whole lot of choices, but with very less wisdom to make the right choice. The mind is always unhappy, and striving for the better.
Few symptoms are -
** I worked so hard for the project, and finally, my manager gave credit to my peer !
** He's got a double promotion, and look at me, I'm still at level 1, when I've done almost what he's done.
** All my friends are striving for a Post graduation, and here I am, still hungry for a B School seat, and not finding one !
** Her guy got her a diamond ring, and my guy hasn't even given me a plastic ear-ring set :(
** He has a beautiful girl-friend, and look at MY....
** He's already got a car !! And I don't even have a bike :(
** Oh, those ppl went for the match w/o inviting me :(
AND MANY more....
Being a twenty-three (I know girls lie about their age, But PROMISE I ain't) something, I realize how true this is. With every passing phase of life, we seem to encounter more challenges, and just about the time when we feel we've overcome one, another one pops from nowhere !! Its high time for me to master Risk Management skills :)
Do check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-life_crisis
One day after work.
12 years ago
8 comments:
That's pretty good... I always thought that there is only one discontented soul on earth living a wretched life always striving for that extra peanuts, now that I know everyone is like that i am pretty happy that noone is happy :)...
well then that makes 2 of us in the quater life crisis club :) but seriously... i think its time for introspection...
relativity sucks!
One more add on to the symptoms of quater life crisis
** she can write beautifully i cant :( .... Lol :D
Oh mann, i cant agree more with you i tel you!! I am like what...23 years old...and now when i sit back and retrospect life luks like a mad rat race, always running after that better, lucrative something :( Hope some day we stop back and sit to enjoy what we have achieved and be content with it :)
not quite pratima... there is a mid life crisis waiting for us after we are done with a fair share of quater life crisis. :D
Symptoms
**search of an undefined dream or goal
**a deep sense of remorse for goals not accomplished
**desire to achieve a feeling of youthfulness
**need to spend more time alone or with certain peers
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_life_crisis
@Chethana,
Someone s turned all philosophical !!
Co-incidentally, Mohit has blogged on the same thing too :) Looks like we're all under some crisis !!
http://mohitlohia.blogspot.com/2008/05/being-twenty-something-they-call-it.html
agreed, everyone is stuck @ same stage/phase .. bt never look at wht u hav achieved, just keep doing it .. everyone has a dream n they follow it (The Alchemist) n u too .. u just need a break @ some exotic destination .. come back with more energy .. thts the way to live .. keep moving .. cheers!!!
i must say that was an interesting post.... wonder why ppl keep running all the time!!! Guess thats life!
If you look at it , at the end of it all , people need more money. If you told ur parents or even ur seniors that u start with a 20k+ salary they will be like ,thats too much but if you look at it,you will urself say in today's world tats nothing....when you have to pay close to a crore to get a nice decent apartment of your own , you are forced to look forward and try and earn as much as possible and you will obviously put in that effort and once in a while you look and say, hmmm, am i running too fast ? its just that one moment where you think but you don't have even time enough to think about it coz' u have some other thing to run back to....
aah!! Honestly was irritated a bit initlaly with "case" stuff.... but yeah the end has a strong message. The conclusion and explanation makes this worth reading at the end. I donno u, but yeah I can easily say its ur own routine. Yeah dont worry not all guys want that "impression", at least not me from My girl :D! You write well, keep the flow on!! (I like writers as I do write too)
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