Rounding out my Friday afternoon at work. Did not make any revenue for the company today =) but I'm slowly learning how to. It's very frustrating not being able to do so yet. I guess I'm impatient. Looking forward to a chill weekend..not too chill though =) My good friend, Anne Cruz sent this email and I thought we could all probably relate on some level...=)

Being Twenty-Something

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 like. You start feeling
insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or
two, but then get 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 aren't 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.

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 try 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.

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
worry about loans and money and the future and making
a life for yourself and while winning the race would
be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender!
What you may not realize is that everyone reading this
relates to it. We are in our best of times and our
worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure
this whole thing out. Make the best out of it.