What Is This Thing Called "Quarter Life Crisis"?

The last couple of years, and more specifically the last 6 months or so I've been really going through a period of questioning my purpose and my existence in this world. I feel disconnected from my life and suddenly wondered, how did I get here? This is not the life I was meant to live, or is it?? There must be more. Certainly this can't be all there is.

As I began to explore the world of blogging, I realized that everyone is asking the same questions and everyone is struggling to find their own meaning in their own little space of this vast world we call home. The problem is, while we may all relate on the existential level of our search and journey, it's the day to day that is the part I struggle with, and that I wish was more easily shared. Sometimes it takes everything in me just to get through the day. How do you you all do it without giving in to the defiant child who just wants to go, 'you can't make me!', and storm out of that unproductive and purposeless business meeting? Or is it just me? Am I the only one who struggles with that inner voice on a regular basis? Is there really meaning to the blogs that just talk about the day to day? Do I really care what you made for dinner? Or which club you went to last night? I'd like to say 'no', but in reality, I suppose those things are the things that help me realize that we all have 'real' lives to live, despite the conflict we feel within about where and who we were, with where we are going and who we are becoming.

I guess that's a good segue into something I read today. We have a tendency to ask each other, 'what do you want to do?' (classic answers include: be a doctor, be an architect, etc.) instead of, 'who do you want to be'? (such as be more patient, be more loving, be more kind, etc.) That's a much more difficult question and a much more difficult answer to seek. I'm still thinking about my answer to that one.