Twerking, jerking, wrecking…whatever Miley Cyrus was doing in her VMA performance was definitely not working. Miley seems to publicly be going through a quarter-life crisis.
Our culture says a lot about people in their 40’s experiencing a mid-life crisis, but the 1/4-life crisis is becoming a common phenomenon in the life of today’s young adults.
The crisis often occurs once young adults have made all the decisions that older adults have told them to make – learn to drive, finish high school, go to college, get a job – then one day they wake up and wonder, “What now?”
The realization sets in that they have “ridden the wave”, and played their childhood part in the script called growing up. Now the only remaining life-decision before retirement is marriage. For many young adults this is when the 1/4-life crisis hits.
Here are three “others-focused” behaviors that help avert the 1/4-life crisis.
