Quarter life crisis

Being twenty something, the 'Quarter life crisis' as it is called, hit upon those quite often who have settled in their career, unlucky or indifferent to love & for no good reasons haven't yet settled in life. But these are just the qualifying essentials. What really makes it a crisis is their confused state of mind. The real syndrome I guess is their lack of reasons to conform to the society norms, and void of the meanings to live a life of their own.

If you are eligble and want to know whether you qualify or not...for being a victim of this age block, just check if you find yourself more in agreement than declines over these symptoms -

• The friends without whom you couldn't afford to dwell in your future have started acting like strangers as if the episode of your life with 'em is over.
• The big dreams & the never ending spirit with which you started your career is gone.
• Out of a minute long scroll of online friends in your msg list, not even a single one tempts you for a buzz or a smiley. Same goes with your phone book.
• The million dollar question pops up in every other conversation. 'So, when are you getting married'
• You look at couples who seem happy, and wonder if you are late in joining the elite race. And once a while if you see or hear 'em getting bored or fight, you smile and tell yourself that may be you are right.
• Your options to loan for a flat, car & plan for a settled life overweigh your quest to explore the unknown in life..but just for a while, and then they change the sides in your thinking ground like the pendulum of your choice clock.
• The spirit to organize a meet, a trek, a disc or a Jagjeet Singh night fades away with time, 'coz the ones you want to plan it with, either would be busy or would come along with someone.
• You stop thinking over what should, and start wondering over what will...tomorrow hold for you .
• Last but not the least, you find blogging a creative way to kill time & justify your status over the weekends.

Undoubtely I fall in the same class with the exception that I seem to be enjoying it...though without knowing the reasons why. May be, there is a better side to it. The way I see it, is not entirely as a crisis rather to an extent as an opportunity. The opportunity to live in a space, where I can dwell, explore & embrace my own meanings in life. The time to compose & fill the void with humming of my own song, to conceive & paint the canvas with shades of my own colors. At the end of it, it doesn't matter if it turns out to be a road less travelled or the same one everyone else seems to be walking. What matters is whether its your choice or you are just following, and I bet the walk will never be the same.