Monday, August 10, 2009

Quarterlife Crisis

a Biblical thought...
To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds. (Daniel 1:17)

a Book thought...
Traditional individualised welfare ‘hands out’ but does not necessarily ‘help out’ because it encourages people to be independent (of each other, though dependent on the government),
when success in the 21st century is based on encouraging people to become interdependent—that is, honouring the receipt of money with reciprocal obligations. Individualised welfare without reciprocal obligations does not encourage people to transform themselves for future success. It provides miserable little fish when it should be assisting people to learn to fish for
themselves. (p375)
a Dave thought... http://www.eyeweekly.com/print/article/55882
The phenomenon, known as the “Quarterlife Crisis,” is as ubiquitous as it is intangible. Unrelenting indecision, isolation, confusion and anxiety about working, relationships and direction is reported by people in their mid-twenties to early thirties who are usually urban, middle class and well-educated; those who should be able to capitalize on their youth, unparalleled freedom and free-for-all individuation. They can’t make any decisions, because they don’t know what they want, and they don’t know what they want because they don’t know who they are, and they don’t know who they are because they’re allowed to be anyone they want.
When a contemporary 25-year-old’s parents were 25, they weren’t concerned with keeping their options open: they were purposefully buying houses, making babies and making partner. Now, who we are and what we do is up to us, unbound to existing communities, families and class structures that offer leisure and self-determination to just a few. Boomer and post-boom parents with more money and autonomy than their predecessors has resulted in benignly self-indulgent children who were sold on their own uniqueness, place in the world and right to fulfillment in a way no previous generation has felt entitled to, and an increasingly entrepreneurial, self-driven creation myth based on personal branding, social networking and untethered lifestyle spending is now responsible for our identities.

Just a thought.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So sad but so true!

Recently i was talking to a friend of mine who so happened to be a psychiatrist. I was mentioning my social inadequacies and how I felt everyone could "see" them. My friend responded by saying: "Dont worry about it, everyone is too busy thinking of themselves to notice what you are doing"......