Mid-life crisis, life passing away, responsibility, burden and monotony are familiar terms. People post their 40s experience a dissatisfaction in their life.

Family pressures, aging issues, little time for self all add up to make people go in a discontent zone of living, but not being alive. Most of these people yearn for their life when they were in their 20s. Lo and behold! We now have a ‘quarter life crisis’.

In 2026 we will have more Gen Zs in their 20s than ever before. This was supposed to be the best period of life.

Wait a minute. No. Gen Z are facing a ‘quarter life crisis’. Many Gen Z have entered their twenties. They have had a rough ride. Their teen age was not the carefree age. The era of fear surrounded them. This was not a time to go around freely and wildly. This was a time to stay indoors. Come back early. Watch out rather than hang out.

Imagine you were born between 1997 and 2012. Your childhood had felt the impact of 9/11 in 2001. You experienced the fear factor taking over the world. Pakistan is becoming a security state and parks and public places being bombed. This environment clipped the childhood of these children. As they became teenagers they saw fun being shadowed by terror.

Musical concerts, football matches worldwide were bombed to cut through pure fun and joy. They lived in the era of wars: Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine and now Venezuela. They have seen the 2007 economic crash and the present never-ending economic crunch. They have lived in the deadly era of COVID. Quite a nightmare. May be that explains the pre-mature ‘quarter life crisis’.

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