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holy moly quaterlife crisis

instead of analysing you and give you some meta advice, i will give you some hands on things to do. (my quaterlife crises lasted a whole decade, but it laid the groundwork for the awesome life i have right now)

a) stop with whatever you are doing now, just stop, don't tell yourself you can't as you have to do so much stuff, just stop.

b) and then start travelling. 9 months, a year, the longer the better. do not prepare too much, you will not need it, travel alone.

only take a kindle and a crappy underpowered smartphone with you (i.e. a firefoxOX device),

if you haven't travelled before, start with thailand, it's a safe and easy country to start travelling, take it from there.

c) do not talk to the same people as you would talk at home, if you are american, don't talk to americans, if you are european, talk to americans, .... relax this rule after some time

d) return

you will not be the same person as you have before, and you will laugh at the person you were before

the whole process is called "getting some perspective"

you can do it at home, too, but well, it's easier if you are physically away and on the road



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