Online Pub-- blog :)

As will or can be noticed from this initial post, my blogs will primarily consist of my current thoughts or frustrations during each week. For the most part, I've tried to stray away from open journals such as this for the very reason that people, as I will, write according to moods or situations, which is not always an entirely accurate version of the writer. Be this as it may, one's thoughts, however swayed by situations or occurrences, are nevertheless one's thoughts, so I will do my best to be unashamed in whatever is most pressing each week. :)

This week, I've been thinking much about change. We always hear of mid-life crisis, and rightfully so-- many realizations undoubtedly occur when one realizes he or she is more than halfway through life-- but I've never heard the term "young-life crisis." This bothers me. Young people often face significant crossroads in their lives (whether or not they should marry, where to live, what profession to pursue, etc.), but they are never granted the grace that would accompany such a title as young-life crisis. If anything, this point in their lives (and in my own, naturally) is as if not more tumultuous as mid-life crisis. During a mid-life crisis, one, for the most part, has a career and has lived a relatively successful life. There are no pressing life changes on the horizon unless one chooses. Young adults, on the other hand, are bombarded with sizable decisions, and yet, society expects each person to pass through this phase with little difficulty.

So I've come to decide that young adults ought to be entitled-- nay, even mandated-- to participate in free therapy sessions. I haven't worked out the details of how/when each person would qualify/be required to go through this, but I am quite sure that this would benefit the overall well-being of future society. I even wonder if the high school or college grads who get married immediately out of school would do so if they knew there were more options, if they knew that they were entitled to want and pursue something aside from simply finding his/her other half and living happily ever after. I do not denigrate any who are happily married; I have several friends who are recently and not so recently married who legitimately could not have chosen a better path. But would things be different if we openly discussed the issues and conflicts that accompany young life changes?

So, yes... Young-life crisis. It's present, and it needs attention: spread the word. :)