Let me just begin by saying that this blog is not exactly about a "crisis," at least not yet, but I'm taken with the phrase. Maybe it's come from a me-first generation. Maybe it's because we have new media that allow us to express ourselves in ways that have not really been seen or heard until now. Maybe it's the idea that a lot of us coming out of college are hitting walls because of the economy. Whichever, the quarter-life crisis is very rarely recognized to exist or properly called what it is.
The fact is, poking our heads out into this bright world is a little daunting, primarily because none of us have ever done it before. Unless we followed a road set before us by a mother or father or a college recruiter, our life is a blank slate.
I challenge you to see this blank slate not as something that must immediately be filled with lists and pictures or any other sort of content, but as a space of endless possibility. For the answers to the big questions: What is my calling? Who am I going to serve in this world? Where will I live? Who will I marry? Or the small questions: What kind of car am I going to drive? What sort of house or apartment will I live in? Will I have the resources to travel?
So much for the introduction. We will explore what we are dealing with exactly within the next few days.
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