the quarter-life crisis

so people really are taking this the quarter-life crisis concept seriously... i haven't decided whether this is a new phenomenon or just an new term for the unsettled nature of the exit from adolescence. more of us are prolonging adolescence by going to college and marrying later in life, so it could be this phenomenon is not new, but the age at which we experience it is. perhaps it used to occur at 18 and now it occurs at 25 - and since 25 year olds tend to have a bit more "clout" as it were, their adolescent whinings are a more prominent part of the culture.

hat-tip to john skovran for the link