I was talking to my best friend a few nights back who lives all the way out in Calgary, Canada, about growing older and becoming afraid of taking risks and making huge changes in our lives. The conclusion we came to is that after the age of 25, people tend to get settled in, and comfortable in what they know, and therefore are afraid to do things that may bring change into lives. This includes things like the city they live in, the job they might be in as well the relationships they are in. It is surely also tied to the quarter life crisis (which the sixth paragraph of this blogpost sums it up quite well), actually, it is probably the reason for the quarter life crisis. Once we begin to be forced to become responsible for ourselves, we become afraid of making the wrong choices, because if we fail, we wont have so much of our family, BFFs or roommates to fall back on. We’ll only have ourselves. That’s a scary thought. So, when things are comfortable, it is that much harder to take a risk that might ruin the fine balance in which we live our lives now.

All this said, I wish I could just turn the clock back about 13 years and go back to being 11 and oblivious.