What stage of your twenties are you currently in?
Are you smack dab in a quarter life crisis?
Or is your quarter life crisis a thing of the distant past?
Not sure?
Check out the seven stages of your twenties below and see where you fit. Now you might skip a stage, or repeat a few of the stages well into your thirties, forties, fifties and beyond:
1. Freedom!
You’ve turned in your last paper. Snagged your first “real world” job. Moved out of your parent’s house for the first time. Now you’re free. No one is there to tell you what to do or not to do. It’s exhilarating! And slightly terrifying when you’re being honest with yourself.
As I wrote in All Groan Up about my “Freedom” stage:
“We were playing an extended game of make-believe that we were becoming full-functioning adults. I expected to hear our parents yelling to come home for dinner. But they just kept letting us play.”
2. First Fall! (plus your 2nd, 3rd, 4th…13th..125th…)
Invincibility feels amazing until your face unceremoniously meets the ground.
Or at least that’s how I remember it.
With all that freedom going to your head like a child actor turned teenager, the first fall is only a matter of time. The only question is how big the crash will be. And how many times you will repeat it.
In my early twenties, I didn’t handle all the questions and ambiguities very well. I began a search for rock bottom, thankfully instead I found a rocky ledge of grace. Read the whole story in my new book, All Groan Up: Searching for Self, Faith, and a Freaking Job!
3. Groan Up Life
The biggest surprise about becoming an adult that no one ever talks about?
Adulthood.Never.Stops.
Yet, somewhere between growing and grown, you find yourself in the groan up stage of your twenties. Where cubicles and college loans become your mainstay. Where thinking of doing your bosses job twenty years from now makes you throw up a little in your mouth.
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