Meditation. An anomaly for many people, but as Buddhism, Hinduism, Yoga and other spiritual practices become increasingly mainstream, we find it being suggested to us more and more. Many people have a hard time sitting in a dark room with their eyes closed trying to clear their mind from all thoughts. What will I … Continue reading
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Quarter Life Conversations Turns 1!
Wow, we are 1 today! Happy birthday to us!!! Just a quick note to say thank you to all of our viewers, supporters, writers, friends and family for making QLC a success. Here’s to many more years together! Cheers! Team QLC Continue reading
5 Life Lessons Learned from my Cheap Chinese Motorcycle
When we arrived in Lomé, Togo, the very first thing we did was go motorcycle shopping. After spending ten months in Freetown, Lomé’s paved beach road looked like nothing less than sweet liberty incarnate. I found my Sanya – a cheap Chinese brand you’ll hopefully never find yourself – and with it my inner sixteen-year-old, … Continue reading
Meaningful Work
Something that I say in job interviews, to relatives, and to cats if I can keep their attention long enough, is that I want to do something worthwhile with my life. I want a profession that’s both existentially meaningful, and professionally fulfilling. These are things that are really, really important to me when I’m looking … Continue reading
QLC Video: Season 1, The Finale
That’s a wrap on Season One of QLC Video! Thank you to our readers for checking in week after week and listening to our cast of real-life 20-somethings talk (quite openly!) about real issues that affect each of us every day– and how we get through them. And so, we leave you all with our favorite … Continue reading
Birthdays: Lessons From 25, Resolutions for 26
With my 26th birthday right around the corner, I thought I’d reflect on the last year of my life, and make some resolutions for the upcoming year. I spent a lot of my 25th year realizing that no matter what you do, some times you are just going to get shit on, people will take … Continue reading
Dispatches From Paris: Adventure vs. Security
I’m 27 years old, and I’m on the verge of getting my first real job. Not my first job, I’ve had lots of those, but my first job job. You know what I mean, the kind of job where they talk about your salary in terms of years instead of hours. The kind of job … Continue reading
QLC Video: How Do You See Yourself?
Are you truly happy with yourself? The way you look, the way you talk, the way you dress? Do you feel a lot of outside pressure to be one way but your heart is telling you something else? We all have insecurities, and as quarter-lifers, we know that these insecurities can really hit us hard … Continue reading
What It’s Really Like to Be in a Quarter Life Crisis
Quarter-Life Crisis is like the new hot blond at the millennial party. And for the first time in my life, I am that hot blond (although I am quite sure I look more like the ‘Amanda Bynes in her wig and Adidas slippers’ version). The media is doing a relatively good job of informing society … Continue reading
QLC Video: Learning To Like Yourself
Most of us twenty-somethings have more confidence than we did when we were teens, and with confidence comes the need to learn what it means to be truly comfortable with ourselves and owning who we really are. As we get older, it is important to look back at how much we’ve grown and changed over the years, … Continue reading