I will be 26 in a few weeks the only thing i keep thinking is that i'm almost 30 and i still have no ideia what the fck am i doing. The fun part is has a kid i tought my parents had all figured out, just now to realize. They have no ideia what they are doing either
I hate that mindset because it's the same line every elder whips out wherever i mention I've got chronic illnesses; I already know I'm going to fucking be miserable when I'm older but that shouldn't diminish the issues I'm already having.
I don't have a relationship with my parents, so instead I bitch about being 25 to my 21-23 year old friends instead. They probably think I'm going insane. But something in that brain just clicks and you find your whole mindset changed, and I know they don't believe me now but they will.
Being in your mid-late twenties is a strange time. One of your friends is married with kids on a home and the other is living with roommates eating pizza pockets and working overnights.
Ten years later it's stranger. I have to accept that I can no longer getting away with saying quarter, it's mid now. Some friends are becoming first time parents but it's not easy and others are becoming first time grandparents
Because 30 years ain't that old. Coroni allegedly created the "Teenage Girls in their 20s!" And while I get it, what they kinda mean with that....that particially, as everything also always existe(d) already. I am sorry but being "ADULT/ING" in this time and age is like a completely different story than up to the 1970s or even 80s. Like look at 30 year olds from "back then" and then look at us "Millenials around their 30s-50s" again... I do even envy the natural givenr resilliance that seem to have to be fed with breastmilk back in the day. Like one windblow and we're flying away..right? (and I don't mean the bodytpe)
@@deltaflute03 Yup, I’m a Millennial and going to turn 40 in a few months. Yet my Boomer parents’ friends and distant cousins still talk about Millennials as if we’re freshmen in college.
@@Annie_Annie__ I’m sorry, I’m guilty of doing that too. My baby brother is a millennial and I’m GenX. It kinda breaks my brain that he’s an actual grown up. I talk to him like he’s still in highschool, but in my defense, he still acts like he’s still in highschool.
Wait til you cross 30 (I'm 35). You haven't felt shit yet. My advice: stretch twice a day, before bed and when you wake up, drink more water, and learn to budget. Revisit this post in 10 years and thank me
At least ur not on a timer. I’m tryna figure out how to buy a car n apartment while trying to balance night classes at college for engineering which also costs money until my company reimburses me
Can someone explain this part? I knew he was some military dude but I Googled it and still dont get this reference? Am I just dimwitted or is it a movie joke or something I'm missing?
@@3arthIsGhetto Your body is going to betray you. All of the stuff you used to do easily will become hard to do and random stuff like going to sleep the wrong way will put you in traction. You'll throw out your shoulder reaching for something on a high shelf, simple things like that.
@@vangu2918 omfgggg I get it now wow I'm so dumb 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️. THANK YOU lol I was like, but I wanna know the joke 🤣 I can't believe how dense I am lmfao
Okayy I'm Gen Z and just turned 14 with anxiety of turning older and everything going downhill since I know this is probably the most carefree and fun part of my life right now - WHAT AM I GONNA DO WHEN I'M IN MY MID TWENTIES AHHHH
If you are feeling anxious about getting older and having existential thoughts at 14, then you probably have undiagnosed depression and anxiety. Take it from a 25 yr old who is only now accepting my actually diagnosed depression only after ignoring the depression and burning out so bad that I failed college. But also you could just be feeling a natural human anxiety of growing old that everyone feels and I am here being presumptuous and internet diagnosing a random stranger on the internet. So you could also just ignore this comment. Lol.
a) Do your best and get a Therapist if it is THAT serious. And don't give up if it doesn't work with No 1 and or 2, finding one is cruel. b) If your parents can't affor that because you live in the US of A (yeah) find a Hotline for your age that can listen to your worries. c) BREATHE ! just BREATHE deep IN & OUT! d) Maybe ocassionally find a old school paper block and write everything you think and feel out...maybe you find things in you, like being able to write good stories or poet you didn't know you had yet or still...
At the very least don't make the same mistakes I did. Find out if there's a community college in your area and see if they have any affiliated universities that they have a credit transfer program with. Take your required course load through the community college before transferring to University to finish out your major. Also, go in with an actual plan. If you don't have a plan you're very likely to waste at least a semester if not multiple years trying to correct for this. If there is a particular trade you are interested in, look for a trade school in your area and try that instead. Worst case, you'll learn within a semester that you aren't cut out for that trade. Best case, you get your certifications within a year or two (depending on the trade) and you're out making money sooner rather than later. While the trades may get looked down on, they're still vital, the work is there, and the pay isn't bad.
When I was 14, I was so excited and looking forward to getting older and having more rights and freedoms. I don’t think this issue you’re having is very common tbh. You should take care of your mental health and realize it’s important NOW bc it’ll get soooo bad by the time you’re 18, 19,20 and up … and you never learn to cope.
Joined the Navy at 22, blinked and I was getting out for medical issues 10 years later. Just hitting mid-30s, can't relate with hardly anyone my age and have a broken body, great times!
It was that 10 year high school class reunion for me. After that, the speed just increased. The 20 year reunion I went numb. Now the 30 year reunion is pure gratitude. Just grateful I'm still kickin', just not as high! 😂
This describes me to a tee. I'm turning 27 in September and am doing one last "hurrah" trying to make a job out of my passions before going back to the customer service minimum wage hell. Worked three years in a grocery store during the pandemic, I just don't want that to be my life...
@@azloii9781 Some people might. In the United States, it's likely that most people won't be able to afford those "advances in technology." I personally am definitely not going to make it to 100.
I can't describe how accurate this one is. dude just described my mid to late 20s step by step, I even referred to my mid twenties as a quarter life crises
I remember my quarter life crisis. It felt like hell and not just the usual hell that was my previous job and spending time with my narcissistic sister. My 30s have been a huge step up because I realized that I Am an adult so literally anything I do Is something an adult would do. Society can't actually gatekeep true adulting. I'm free.
I’m not really understanding what it means to have a life crisis, like when people say quarter or mid-life crisis. I’m in my later 20s and I’m just chugging along, doing my thing day by day. Do you wake up one day and just start freaking out about getting older?
@@R0gueM It's sort of a gradual thing. When we are young, we are told we have to progress at the same level as everyone else if we want to grow up to have a normal, happy life. Everyone internalizes this at different levels but everyone has some sort of expectation that if they do x then they can expect to get y at some point. However, once you actually get to the legal adult phase of life, you start to notice that some things aren't happening the way you thought they would. You see other people going on to get into an amazing college or get a good job or buy a house or start and family and it's easy to fall into the trap of wondering what's wrong with you that you weren't able to do the same thing when other people your age or even younger already have. For me, I had to give up on my dream job for a variety of reasons and then I got fired from the job I did have due to the new owners purging all the old staff after the buy out. I had to give up on my apartment and move back in with my parents. So I hit my mid 20s, I had no place of my own, my new job was near literally hell for reasons I don't want to talk about, and on top of it all, my evil sister would come home from her big fancy state school and drop subtle jabs at me for not being smart enough or talented enough to achieve even a fraction of what she was doing. A quarter life crisis can hit at any time after 21 but 25 is the usual point as it's the point your brain finally stops developing. It than suddenly hits that your 10 year high school reunion is only a few years away, you'll be hitting 30 in 5, and you've essentially achieved none of the important goals you wanted for your future. If you've been able to avoid it up to this point, I very much envy you. I wouldn't wish that feeling on anyone. My advice would be to make some time to do things you enjoy. Taking time for a little self care can go a long way. Also don't be afraid of 30. It's actually not as bad as so many people think it is. It actually feels pretty good. Highly recommended.
@@Takisan111wow I feel like you’re the first person who actually articulated exactly what you feel about this issue, in a way others can understand (me at least) and it was so relatable. I’m sorry about your narcissistic sister. I have a brother like that and I keep being angry he’s so far along and he’s a fancy engineer and perfect. I had to move back in with my parents at 20 also. Covid happened at the same time my fiancé broke up with me and I was so mentally unstable that I had to move back in with them. I lost everything. Then the economy being the way it was, I am 24 and still live with my mom and step dad. I feel like a failure bc I compare myself to my HS peers and my YOUNGER brother. my mom is a narcissistic so I know how that feels. I’m a freshmen in college now and everyone else is like 17-22 and most people in the marching band are freshmen so it’s even younger. Plus they had no highschool experience socially so they are so much more immature than a normal college student. They act like they’re in highschool and it makes me not only feel even older, but it makes me feel like I am going backwards in life and I should be somewhere better. I was 20 when the pandemic started and then we came out of it and I was 23… I lost those years to a void and now I’ll never know what it’s like to have my early early 20’s in college. I was doing nothing and working in EMS during covid. And I didnt go back to college until after covid bc it wasn’t the same education without being there in person. Now I regret not just going through covid. But either way, I missed out on my college aged years and that normal college experience. Now I’m not an untraditional student being a bit older. But nobody can tell. I can though.
Bro I’m 18 and Gen z. Student debt is scary af. I’d like to go back to kindergarten please. edit: people keep telling me to drop out and do a trade or smth but i have zero interest in that lol. like ZERO, id honestly rather have a molecular bio and psychology degree(s) be in debt and like my job, than be a plumber or electrician just for the money and hate my job (said lovingly)
Just... don't do what I did. Picked a career I knew I would be good at but didn't do enough research into it. In the end, the boom and bust cycle of the economy f'ed me over. The 08 recession hit, and my industry dried up. Yeah, pick something that is recession resistant.
im not even near my 20s yet and ive been having a crisis over the fact that i know im gonna end up like that and have a quarter life crisis, working in some bland 9-5 office job with enough money to live just fine but not enough money to travel or do anything special on the weekends, wasting my entire life away as a mere one out of millions of other 9-5 office workers, never accomplishing anything remarkable and living the same monotonous life as millions of people have lived before me, dying knowing that i was never special and that my existence never mattered to the world.
Lmao, I actually appreciate this one cuz I'm going thru one currently lol. I'm 25 and all I can think on the matter is "So soon??😫" Finally clicking in my head that I cant just say I'm "a teenager running on spare time" lol
I’ve never really been about birthdays so I decided to stop having them and made the personal decision to stop aging altogether back at 29.. it was a good age so I decided to stick with it. Working great for me so far. 👍
I decided to go the other route and age faster. In my mid 30’s, I chose to always tell everyone I’m five years older than I am. This way I always look good for my age and I’m closer to retirement. It’s easier than asking Mother Nature or Father Time for approval because they don’t have to do anything. Their sitting back waiting for me to actually be in my late 80’s when the trick doesn’t work anymore because I’m too old for it to matter. So far it has worked pretty well. Life still goes on, but at least I look good, with less work and no need for plastic surgery. My sister and female cousins love it because it makes me older than them. Plus, it makes me old enough that as far as my career is concerned, I’ve paid my dues and it’s almost Mai-tai o’clock.
Honestly, if I was going to stop time, it would be 38. I was in great health, old enough to know better, and had met the love of my life. It was all downhill after 39.
STOPPPPP. STOP REMINDING ME. my mother told me at 15 years old "You're halfway to 30" no context. Just that gem. Now when I turn 30, I'm going to remember that I'm 15 years from 45.
I love that these videos have gotten to the point where Gen Z is firmly hitting the start of "real" adulthood. I know there's a lot of freshly about 25ers in here. I remember that feeling. Your 30s are FINE. 25-30 feels like a wild ride because you're literally finally seeing the world differently for the first time (brain science, look it up) and then when you hit your 30s it's kind of scary at first because you realize that it's suddenly ALL ON YOU. No one is going to say "aww shucks you're just a kid" in most any circumstance. But then you hit those mud 30s and it's just like... All this life experience you've had just... Becomes a new you. Like, it's still you but you don't feel this pressure you had before to be on all the time. You know how you look at people over 35 and think "ugh, they are just boring"? They aren't, they are doing "me shit". They aren't living for anyone but themselves. It's great. Now, I've already had my mid life crisis in my late 30s (thanks covid) so I'm looking forward to my "fabulous 40s) once I get my finances reestablished after my career change but your 30s and after are GREAT. Your body may hurt but your brain works
Wow. This video hit home too many times in a row. I hate that I’m turning 24 in a month, and the one booze I can’t handle anymore is basically just any liquor.
YES finally the fringe gen zs got one. The accuracy of this makes me happy!!! Thanks for everything you do man. You make a lot of people just a lil happier every time you drop a new short ❤
I'm facing 35 this October, raising my son alone, and am legit the happiest I've been in a decade. It ain't easy, but lemme tell ya, not worrying about getting girls or impressing people (besides my kiddo) has changed my life for the better. Simplicity. Lines make progress, circles do not
I'm 24 and I feel like I've been here a WHILE so what he said hit me hard. My crisis began at 20. Now I find fulfillment in making rap music, working out, smoking a little pot, and practicing various instruments while I save my money.
I know i’m a little late, but if you don’t mind me asking, whats your job? I mean is it from any “passion” you got or a 9-5? I’m 20 and I really don’t know how to handle the “crisis” i’m even questioning if i chose the right major in college or not and i’m already 2 years in.
@@JJaxx-bf9bm No, like- _folding it_ like a blanket. You can do it, but fuck do you have no idea what your doing at first and then you just get annoyed at every other time. And yeah, you _know_ how to do it. You just hate doing it. Especially if it's a queen sized one.
This series is painful with how relatable it is. I remember my quarter life crisis and discovering that I couldn’t eat and drink what I used to, all my old classmates and my cousins getting married…
You still have your 20's and the first part sucks anyway, I lost the end of my 20s on the pandemic, and that made me, it seems a forever tomorrow late bloomer.
I am so glad that I am not the only experiencing the quarter life crises. 😭😭😭 I turn 30 later this year and I swear it’s feels like I’m turning 70 instead. Everybody I know is either married or has children. Meanwhile, I have no kids and I’m afraid that I’m getting to old to be a mom. Everyone tells me that I’ve got time, but then again there’s a reason why they tell women to have kids on your early 20’s. I have a good job, but it’s a 9 to 5 and there’s a part of me that’s afraid that I’ll be stuck doing this for the next 30 years. I still have dreams about doing my dream job, but apart me feels like I’ve gotten too old and that I have too many bills to even attempt pursing my dream. Thankfully, I don’t have any really body aches or pains, but I am worrying about age and how much longer do I have to still be young and beautiful? Everyone tells me that I am, but I can still see the gray hairs and the crinkle lines at the corny of my eyes appearing. 🥺🤯 It’s just a lot and while I know that it’s all in my head…I know that I live my life however I want at whatever age I want, but I just really hate getting old and feeling like my life has no purpose. That’s exactly what the quarter life crises feels like to me and I can only imagine just how much it’s gonna be for me once I hit mid life crisis. 😬
It's alright. Eventually, you'll hit the point where someone asks how old you are, and you have to stop and think, and then COUNT. ... Actually, I'm not sure if that's better or worse than the 25-crisis.
My 26th birthday is next week and this is so accurate. Although I have been feeling this way since I graduated high school and realized all my peers seemed to have things figured out already( I know this isn't true but from my perspective it felt like it) and I had no idea what I was doing with my life and still don't.
The one answer I was ever told I’m my life when asked this question was “Try doing something. you don’t like it? Try something else” Now I just got excepted into a welding training program and I’m so stoked about it
Having just turned 30 and seeing the full scale of my fellow 92 borns... if you make the right decisions then you can continue to play life as a game 😭 but no ones life is perfect, once you accept that it gets a lot easier
28 now and I have been through a few of those phases. By early 20's you want to do what everyone else is doing and not feel left out. Also find the right person to be in a relationship with. By mid you just want to get your life in order and be successful. Approaching 30 now and I just want peace of mind. By 40 I will probably move away from everyone.
Yeah I started my quarter life crisis recently. Realized "crap everyone's figuring life out, and I'm here wasting away". Started losing weight, hitting the gym, and looking for an end goal in life.
I think of this often. I’m 19. We only get to 60-80. I got through 1/4-1/3 of my life. I won’t ever have more time than I will now, but I don’t have all the answers. This is actually me growing up. The diploma from highschool and my 18th meant nothing. It truly feels like it’s changing. I’m very, very scared. However, there’s nothing I or anyone can do about it. The best option I have is to make the most of this time but I often don’t know how. I always had the answers. Maybe an idea. Now I feel isolated and this change was and always will be inevitable. I just wish I was ready. Too bad I suppose. I got work tomorrow.
Basically your 20s are the time to experiment, explore and make the mistakes that solidify into what the rest of your life is gonna look like....sigh, I wish I had saved more money and taken more naked pics of myself😭😂
There comes a time when you realize everything of significance you will ever accomplish is behind you. Enjoy your 20s, 30s.40s, 50s, and even 60s for some people. - - - Some old guy.
Im 22 now (b-day was a few days ago) and i am working at a dead end job. But i can proudly say i do not drink, smoke, drugs, or anything that isnt safe for me or my family
I just turned 20 and even just that is fucking with my head currently and yes that means 2002 was 2 decades ago, damn how time flies even when I'm this young but older at the same time
Turning 24 next year and I’m finally done with uni. I honestly feel like this type of feeling represented is missing me as I feel like my life has only opened for more opportunities and fun activities
‘Adulting I hate that word’ Lol my friends and I would say ‘the m word’ It was ‘mature’. Anytime someone said it we would act like they’ve become a war criminal. It was a whole thing 😂
The last few years of my life went by like a dart , and to be honest, I didn’t really think I get this far. Now I have three young nieces I need to watch out for, and to be honest my life just ain’t it anymore. I used to be young now I’m old, I used to be cool I used to be bold, but now, I’m just bald. Thanks for coming.
I’m learning in my mid 20s that some people are having the time of their life right now and some people are like me crushing disappointment trying to figure out anything and things will hopefully pop off in our 30s
For me it was “the 6 year old crisis” then constantly increasing existential dread that never stopped. Who needs a “quarter” or “midlife” crisis when you can just have one constant one that progressively gets worse and more soul crushing? Who needs a body approaching its mid 30s that starts to betray you when you could have one that starts to do that in your mid teens instead? Good times.
Enjoy your youth, but the sooner you start prepping for your future, the easier it'll be to live that lifestyle you want. If you keep waiting, the future will sneak up on you.
