another person having a quarter-life crisis?
18th February 2026
I turned 25 a few months ago.
As a child, 25/26 always seemed the sort of age I imagined I’d be starting to settle down - maybe married, or getting engaged, or at the very least, in a long-term committed relationship and working on my career. And yet here I am, buying mini microphones so I can video myself chatting shit in a park and posting it on TikTok.
Whilst those expectations are farcical and farfetched, reaching this age where the reality could not feel farther away from them is still disconcerting. Safe to say, it’s a tricky time.
My childhood best friend just got married. Most, if not all, of my friends have either finished their masters, are years into their corporate jobs, engaged, or pregnant. As we know, comparison is the thief of joy, with the whole everyone’s on their own timeline bullshit, but I still can't help to look in the mirror and ask myself what the hell it is I'm doing.
And whilst I definitely do not want to be settling down with a husband right now, let alone a CHILD, or even sat at an office desk working a 9-5, I still feel this constant and underlying pull that I, kind of, should be? Yet, someone might look at my life and wish they were doing what I was doing instead. The grass is always greener.
When people say it’s okay to not have it all figured out, how about it’s okay to not have anything figured out?
So, what the hell is going on? The honest answer: I don’t have a fucking clue.
What I do have though, are a lot of questions. Questions about my life, life in general, about the decisions we make, the society we live in and figuring out what it is that really brings me joy. I have a problem with getting hyper-fixated on a certain idea and ruminating on it for weeks. Naturally, I thought I’d use this to my advantage and document this quarter-life crisis / crash out / whatever you want to call it, asking a different question each episode and unpacking it, whilst solving (or not) my constant compulsion to find an answer for everything.
Let’s find out together.