posted on 22.06.09 More on the Quarter Life Crisis
  • me: Professor Responsibility says "Pay off debts before making new ones"
  • Josh: Professor Responsibility is wise. If not a pain in the ass.
  • me: Yeah, I try not to listen to him, but sometimes he's REALLY LOUD
  • Josh: He sounds like some sort of DAD.
  • me: He is. It's me as a dad. Maybe that's what the Quarter Life Crisis is about. Being your own dad and rebelling against yourself.
  • Josh: You could be right. I think it's about having had too many expectations that we'd all be rock stars and movie gods by the time we were 24. EN-TITLE-MENT.
  • me: But I think it's really more about our pre-24 identities striving for rockstarness through inverse actions of our parents. Then once we become the rent payers, breadwinners, trying to rebel against ourselves, which is in effect rebelling against the rebel. It all becomes feedback and we're left confused with our ears ringing.
  • Josh: You've left me with nothing clever to say in response. I think you're right.