A mid-life crisis at quarter-life

Posted on April 15th, 2008 in Quarter Life Crisis by Warren

I typically associate the quarter life crisis with twenty somethings in search of a passion and career direction after finishing the schooling chapter of our lives. But in some cases, especially with a childhood prodigies, we typically skip the quarter life crisis and see a premature onset of a mid life crisis at quarter life.

Kate Bosworth’s crisis appears to me to be more of a mid-to-later life crisis, the kind that you have towards the the mid to later stages of your career when you realize “wow, where’d all the time go?”.  In her case, she’s been acting since she was an early teen so I assume that she’s already found a passion and career path.  So I see this as a case of premature aging - her “quarter life crisis” is  more like a mid-life crisis rearing its ugly head at quarter life….  Hollywood seems to do that to a lot of people.

Other more obvious cases: Britney, Home Alone kid, etc.

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