Quarter of a century old

[Rylot]

As of the twenty-ninth of July I turn twenty-five. Christ I'm not taking this well. People say that age is just a number but I can't just shake this being my quarter of a century birthday. I don't seem to have a direction in life. I've at least moved away from living with family, so I'm not a drain on them, but I haven't landed a job in a year. For two years I attended the University of Illinois on a disabled track scholarship, but by the end of the second year that deteriorated to the point that it stopped being even remotely fun or worth it. So any way, sorry for being emo and being a whiny ***** about this. To superficially add some discussion value: How did any one else deal with turning twenty five?

OT: Damn it captcha, I'm too drunk to accurately quote anything! And seriously, Norwegian cruise lines have food that tastes like shit.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

i just turned 25. well not just. i work in a club and the day before my birthday was the first date of a line of parties i organized with some friends in our club, we booked my favourite dj and had a commercially succesfull party in our club with music i love and nice people. so yeah i took it pretty well.

 

[Rylot]

i just turned 25. well not just. i work in a club and the day before my birthday was the first date of a line of parties i organized with some friends in our club, we booked my favourite dj and had a commercially succesfull party in our club with music i love and nice people. so yeah i took it pretty well.

Hate, scathing hate... Actually not really. That sounds pretty cool. I've actually got a really absurdly sweet girlfriend and a core group or friends so I think I just need to put the vodka down and stop being a whiny emo kid... Anyway...

OT: Captcha: 'press into service' Okay these captchas are freaking me out.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I know how you feel. I'm 24 this year.

I still can't get over the fact that I was 13 ten years ago.

Time really does fly as you get older.

 

[MonocleClaire]

25 may be a quarter of a century but 50 is half of that. And you're not 50. So just take it easy~

 

[Robert Ewing]

I feel the same sort of depression as you. I'm 18, almost 19. I have Straight A GCSE's and A levels. Yet all the noobs that got D's and E's are the ones getting the jobs. I'm stuck here on the dole and in the unemployment line.

Screw school, it's freaking useless. I didn't work my entire life so far for this sort of treatment. Just goes to show, that you don't have to succeed in the classroom to get far in life.

 

[DJDarque]

I haven't turned 25 yet and won't for three and a half more years, but everything you talked about I felt when I turned 21. I still feel that way honestly.

 

[Phorkias]

I don't seem to have a direction in life.

Quarter life crisis. It's okay, you'll get over it.

 

[Rylot]

I don't seem to have a direction in life.

Quarter life crisis. It's okay, you'll get over it.

Yeah, but I can't afford anything cool like a midlife crisis. No convertible, just an existential crisis of personal identity. Nothing cool.

 

[TheRealCJ]

Hey, I just entered my second decade.

I found myself just a few nights ago having to scroll down through a DOB Year menu. That was a little depressing.

 

[TheRealCJ]

I don't seem to have a direction in life.

Quarter life crisis. It's okay, you'll get over it.

BUT WHAT ABOUT ISOTOP?

 

[Rylot]

BUT WHAT ABOUT ISOTOP?

What? I don't even...What?

Edit: Do you mean isotope?

 

[TheRealCJ]

BUT WHAT ABOUT ISOTOP?

What? I don't even...What?

Edit: Do you mean isotope?

Oh please

Spoiler

 

[varulfic]

I am in a similar situation but a few years younger, so your post just made me feel a little bit better about myself. Thanks.

 

[Rylot]

Snip

What the fuck did I just witness? Seriously, what the fuck was that?

 

[TheRealCJ]

Snip

What the fuck did I just witness? Seriously, what the fuck was that?

The Brilliant prose of Peter Chimera, as told through the pure Auteur filmaking of Djy1991.

 

[Rylot]

Snip

It's five am here and I think I'm too drunk to fully absorb what I've seen...

 

[TheRealCJ]

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It's five am here and I think I'm too drunk to fully absorb what I've seen...

Given personal experience, I'd say not drunk enough to fully comprehend.

 

[Sammaul]

I'm 30 now and due to an unfortunate business-enterprise, the 20.000 euros I saved up in the years prior to that are gone (+the steady job that got me that money).

I live in my sister's attick and have been looking for a job for a couple of months now.

Life turns to shit for some people sometimes, it did for me (though I've hit far from rock-bottom and there are too many scenarios far worse than mine, I know)

What keeps me going is the sense that anything can change with the right amount of luck and/or effort.

All in all, the biggest change for me is that I have to be careful financially (a lot of games on my to-buy-list and a new HDTV because I'll leave mine for my sis and her husband once I move out).
Other than that, I still love my family and friends and with them around me, I know I will get to a point where I start loving my life once again.