I got the following forward from Ruthie… It’s pretty interesting:

They call it the “Quarter-life Crisis.” It is when you stop
going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are a lot of things
about yourself that you didn’t know and may not You start feeling
insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get hot and
scared because you barely know where you are now. You start realizing
that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you
were so close to arent exactly the greatest people you have ever met and
the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important
ones. What you do not realize is that they are realizing that too and are
not really cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that they are as confused
as you are. You look at your job. It is not even close to what you
thought you would be doing or maybe you are looking for one and realizing
that you are going to have to start at the bottom and are scared. You miss the
comforts of college, of groups, of socializing with the same people on a
constant basis. But then you realize that maybe they weren’t so great
after all. You are beginning to understand yourself and what you want and do not want. Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing
and find yourself judging a bit more than usual because suddenly you
realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and add things to your
list of what is acceptable and what is not. You are insecure and then
secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel
alone and scared and confused. Suddenly change is the enemy and you cry and
cling on to the past with dear life but soon realize that the past is
drifting further and further away and there is nothing to do but stay
where you are or move forward. The stupid ones plateau, the smart ones rise.
You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such
damage to you or you lay in bed and wonder why you can’t meet anyone decent
enough to get to know better. You love someone but maybe love someone else too
and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you are not a bad
person. One night stands and random hook ups start to look cheap and getting
wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the
same emotions and questions over and over and talk with your friends
about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision. You
wonder what in the hell is wrong with you. You worry about loans and money and
the future and making a life for yourself and while winning the race would
be great, right now youd just like to be a contender! We are making a lot
of mistakes, but helping one another learn from them. We will piss
one another off, and laugh at the end of a conversation that started with
angry words. We are a group that talks behind the backs of the same people we
call to meet up with on a Friday night, but we are sorry about it and we
know that we were just being insecure like they have been. What you may not
realize is that everyone reading this relates to it and we are all in
this together. We are in our best of times and our worst of times,
trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. We are friends,
and in 10 years we will be friends who have figured out where we fit in
this world.

Promise Yourself: To give so much time to the improvement of
yourself that you have no time to criticize others.