I am precisely 24 and one half - my half-birthday falls between 4/30 and 5/1, which was yesterday.

Sometimes I quarter-life-crise about it. Like "why aren't I more on the path that I should be on?" and as mentioned in the thread ButterflyEffect linked, "should I buy a house?"

"Am I doing enough?" is the question I tend to grapple with in these moments, not so much "Am I doing the right thing?" teamramonycajal. I saw that you are baffled about people with a lack of direction. For me it is not that I have a lack of direction; it is, how do I obtain what I want without sacrificing what I need to survive? What do I truly need? Am I working enough towards long-term life goals like "permanent housing" without sacrificing too much in the short-term? And for me there is also the element of: I am doing so much work, but will I succeed - will it pay off?

Those are the kind of quarter-life questions I have, not "what do I want to do with my life?" I know what I want to do. I just have to weigh it against the rest of my life and see if it's actually achievable.