High School Reunion

Tomorrow is our high school reunion after 10 years of our graduation. 

Quarter-life crisis feels.

Yesterday, I bumped into my old highschool friend in the train station. After a few lines of how-are-you's the inevitable topic of the reunion came up.

I am not alone. 

Back when I was a kid, I always wondered why people had quarter-life crises in their lives. It seems to me that this phenomenon is an inevitable phase in one's life. Now, I only have a faint memory of the promise I made that I won't be in that situation. It punched me while I wasn't looking.

For me, there are two sides of the quarter-life crisis coin. A negative and positive one. Negative, in the sense that one's life, comparatively, doesn't fit the norm or the expectations of people -- that they are not in the imaginary stereotypical bounds of success. Positive, in the sense that they are indeed are "tangibly" in those bounds but even though they have achievements, they are still in crisis  because of the need to prove that the imaginary bounds of stereotypical success is real. 

But I'm still going, after all, it's good to see old friends.