The Twenties. The New Mid Life Crisis?

"Shit I'm Old." This is the text that woke me up at 4:00am on a Saturday night. To make matters worse it was sent from someone who is three years younger than me. Apparently a friends younger sibling went to a nightclub and found out upon arrival it was teens night. The next text that followed said, "there are so many new artists, new dances and new songs out I had no idea about. I definitely felt like the old bitch in the club." This was alarming to me because if she thought she was old then I must be ancient. Every twenty something that I know definitely has that moment when they realize they are getting older. But when did getting older turn into "I'm old"? Does it hit us like an epiphany? What was the moment when you realized, holy crap I'm old. If you ask me it sounds dangerously close to almost having a mid life crisis. Are twenty somethings even capable of having a mid life crisis. Should there be a new term for us? Why do forty somethings get a fancy word and we don't? This definitely caught my attention and I needed to do my own research. First I needed to exactly what a mid life crisis meant. From movies and T.V all I really knew was that at some point in your forties people begin to go crazy or slowly lose their mind. No offense to older readers but that's what was always portrayed on television when it came to a mid life crisis. I needed to actually define what a mid life crisis meant and this is the best definition I found so far. The following is taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, "To describe a period of dramatic self-doubt that is felt by some individuals in the "middle years" or middle age of life, as a result of sensing the passing of their own youth and the imminence of their old age." Was that it? Did that sum up a mid life crisis? I conducted my own experiment at my office. I ask several colleagues the following question, "Would you consider your twenties a period of dramatic self-doubt sensing the passing of your youth and the imminence of old age." It was unanimous, everyone said yes. I felt like I was on to something. I was about to discover that twenty somethings have their own weird mid life crisis of their own. So where is our fancy term!? I need to do more research.