Caroline Beaton recently wrote an article in Psychology Today titled, Why Millennials Need Quarter-Life Crises. We’ve heard of Boomers and Generation Xers going through their “mid-life crises” but now a growing trend in psychology is that MILLENNIALS are grappling with a “Quarter-life crises” REALLY? What’s this all about? We need millennials to explain themselves… Listen to The Larry O’Connor Show today from 3pm – 6pm as Larry speaks with millennials about the idea of a “quarter-life crisis”.
An excerpt of Beaton’s article is below:
Temporarily renting an apartment in Boulder with my boyfriend for his first year of law school, I find myself wanting everything to be permanent. We decide where the books will go, which pots to hang, the feng shui of the bedspread, but it feels all for nothing. We’ll be moving again, back to Denver in a year or three, but I want to know what our life will look like forever.
Not everyone in my generation has my same homing instinct, but most can probably relate to craving being settled: to having decided. We putz from job to job, hunting meaning with fickle passion, and wish for a 50-year fulfilling career syllabus.
The success of my own articles and many others on quarter-life crises reflect our need for decisiveness: Lifehacker’s “How to Overcome Your Quarter-Life Crisis” and Relevant’s “7 Cures to Your Quarter-Life Crisis”, for instance. Of course, if there were a simple crisis protocol, it would be common knowledge, like how to boil eggs. Instead, sometimes the only thing that feels certain and unchanging is a constant state of crisis. [Read More]
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