Recently I read a piece called “Being Twenty Something” about Quarter Life crisis..!! It made me wonder… is it really a crisis..!! I’m in my twenties and crises, well….
In your teens most of the pictures you have in mind are painted by parents and friends, people who are around you… but moving into twenties, you start sketching your own images… some good… same bad… some downright ugly...!! But each one adds a little to “U”…!!
This phase in life gives the path you want to take and the understanding of what makes you happy… You start realizing how much your dreams and desires mean to you…!!! And that the easy answer “main bada hoke papa jaise banana chahta hoon” given to innumerable uncles n aunties, makes a lot more sense now… Or maybe just looking at your job you realize, that you had never thought of doing this and yet you are damn good at it.
Twenties is the time of your first job… your first brush with realities of life…!! The time when you realize all that your parents must be facing to make ends meet and give you a comfortable life… it maybe be due to the fact that no matter what u do, saving seems a impossibility… and then there is this whole new lesson known as Income Tax (which after working for 4 yrs also I don’t understand :) ) that u have to learn.
This is the point where you start juggling with life…. Dividing time or should I say making 30 out of the 24 hrs available…. Work, family, colleagues, friends from work, from college, from school…. And yet we don’t manage to give quality time to even half of these people…!! Well “kuch paane ke liye kuch khona paadta hai”….
Twenties also puts you to understanding independence… coz now it is not simply fighting with your parents to be allowed for late night parties or wearing all kinds of clothes, but now it is about being responsible for your life… making decision which would decide your future… well it is tough….
A lot of things happen very fast during this time & yet I think this is the most exciting phase of your life... Not only do these years decide the rest of your life, be it your career, the person who would be your life-mate; but these years also carve the person you are meant to be… these years define you in many ways….
So crises… hardly… I think this is the time to get to know yourself like never before… the time to fall in love with…. well “U”…..!!
