November 24th, 2025

If you feel stuck, or confused, this is for you!

If you feel stuck, lost or confused, you’re probably going through a Quarter-Life crisis. It’s a period often experienced in your twenties and thirties, marked by anxiety, fear, and a season of self-discovery, over the direction and quality of your life. 

This quarter-life crisis definition sounds pretty daunting, but I’d argue that going through a young adult dilemma could be one of the best things to happen to you. How do we journey through a young adult dilemma and come out the other side alive, kickin’, and ready to thrive?

Here’s some hope and encouragement if you’re currently venturing through a Quarter-Life Crisis.

1. Crisis is Normal

Experiencing a crisis in your twenties is like having gas after eating beans. Just because we don’t talk about it, doesn’t mean we don’t all go through rough rough patches.

Even our own parents most likely went through intense questioning and crisis in their twenties and thirties.

2. Engage with a Community

We need to get better at talking through the struggle. We’re all struggling. Yet, we’re all struggling to make it appear like we’re not struggling. You are not alone in this. So many young adults are struggling, we’ve just become proficient at hiding it.

3. Don’t Sit and Stew and Simmer

Open up the windows. Let in some fresh air. Go for a run. If you have no idea what you’re doing in your life, pick something that you know can’t be bad and just run with it. Sometimes, the best answers come when we stop sitting around obsessing over finding them.

4. It’s More Transition than Quarter Life Crisis

Transitions start with an ending. Just like a break up with someone you hoped was “the one,” when you’re in major life shifts you’re splitting apart with an important season of your life. You’re cutting the anchor that held you in that port, and as it splashes in the water it’s bound to produce some waves.

Transitions are not merely a bridge to the next important season of your life. Transitions are the most important seasons of your life. Let the overwhelming feeling of “I have no idea where I’m going” guide you to where you want to be.

“Getting lost and exploring are pretty much the same thing. Explorers just get lost on purpose, with purpose.”

I can honestly say now, I’m thankful for my quarter-life crisis. If we don’t learn how to explore now, then we’ll truly be lost later.

My young adult dilemma was what forced me to explore and figure out what path I really wanted to follow in life. It encouraged me to think deeply and be intentional. A young adult dilemma is simply an invitation to ask “what and why?”

Sometimes, life will dismantle you so that you can be rebuilt stronger.

Written by Nkem Eteri