Step
1.
Log
in to Facebook or any social media site that allows a person to present chosen
aspects of their lives to the world.
Step
2.
Scroll
through all the updates your Facebook friends post. Notice one long lost
Facebook-friend -you've-never-contacted-before's photos showing him or her
delivering babies or climbing the top of the country's highest mountain or
posing in front of the Eiffel Tower.
Step
3.
Be
amazed at what he or she has accomplished. Proceed to look through his or her
Facebook timeline and photo albums. Kids nowadays call this “stalking.”
Step
4.
Take
eyes of your computer monitor and look around you. Take in the contrast between
your life and his or her life. Feel the insecurity creep in.
Step
5.
Start
to panic and question what you've been doing for the past few years since
you've been out of college. You've been to college! What are you doing with
your life?! Why are you not delivering babies (or having babies, even!) or climbing a mountain or posing in
front of the Eiffel Tower?! You could do all of that, why aren't you?!
PHOTO TAKEN FROM HERE.
Step
6.
Begin
to feel sorry for yourself and your lack of success and cluelessness about where you're going in life. Start to forget about all
the things you have accomplished. Start hating your house, your relationships, your
stifling work cubicle, your lame-ass future travel plans because you know that
these will never amount to anything compared to what they have. Whoever they
are.
Step
7.
Mope
for a few days. Start thinking about what you want to do differently and vow to
make changes in your life from this day onwards. Or get distracted by life’s
other problems (like work, rent, utility bills, groceries, family, your Tumblr
addiction, the list goes on and on…) until the next panic-inducing Facebook
visit.
Step
8.
Repeat
Steps 1 through 7.
*Quarter Life Crisis may be induced through other means as well, such as meditation, reflection and living through daily activities that do not satisfy you personally or professionally.
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