Quarterlifecrisis Stories

Jika kamu dewasa, banyak tuntutan dan penderitaan, kamu tidak sendirian. Usia 27 tahun, tidak cantik-cantik banget, belum mapan, belum menikah, itulah Vieran. Tidak punya privilege ekonomi, membuatnya tidak leluasa perawatan kecantikan. Pekerjaannya yang melihat banyak perceraian, membuat hasratnya untuk menikah hilang. Orang-orang menganggapnya hebat karena pekerjaanny, tapi hanya dia yang tahu seberapa isi saldo rekeningnya, tekanan batinnya, dan ketakutannya. Masing-masing manusia punya jalan menuju kedewasaannya sendiri. Inilah jalan kedewasaan Vieran. Jika kamu lelah dalam perjalanan kedewasaan ini, maka kamu adalah teman seperjuangan Vieran dalam perjalanan memahami bahwa dewasa ternyata seperti ini.

Seravi Haneda punya kemampuan ajaib; bisa merasakan emosi seseorang melalui sentuhan. Hidup Seravi terombang-ambing di antara interviu kerja dan perjodohan. Rayden Klou yang benci sentuhan fisik, sempat menolak Seravi mentah-mentah. Namun, kemudian Rayden justru datang kembali dengan ajakan untuk menikah. Di tengah rahasia kelam dan luka yang terungkap, Seravi harus memilih: tetap bersama melawan dunia atau berpisah meski harus terluka. ©2022 Anggi Ermona 🍂 Cerita ini ditulis untuk Season of Miracle Series

After losing her apartment, her best friend, and the future she thought she wanted in the span of a week, Kit Martin is forced to start over. Armed with an unfinished resume, a bruised heart, and exactly zero life plans, she moves into a cramped apartment with Hiro-a baker, restaurant worker, occasional Pilates instructor, and the most confusingly kind person she's ever met. The building is old. The walls are thin. The neighbors are loud. But between shared dinners, unexpected friendships, and the strange comfort of people who ask nothing from her, Kit begins to wonder if getting her life wrecked wasn't the end of her story. Maybe it was the beginning.

Kehidupan menjelang dewasa tidaklah mudah, kau harus dihadapkan oleh berbagai macam kenyataan yang semakin menyakitkan, orang-orang yang dulunya dekat kian menjauh, orang yang kau harapkan tak selamanya hadir dalam setiap langkahmu. Pengalaman pahit pasti selalu dialami setiap orang, kau terkadang merasa bimbang, galau dan risau pada hidup yang terkesan membosankan. Aku mencoba berbagi cerita, tak hanya pengalaman yang pahit namun juga pengalaman manis, yang dikemas dengan bahsa yang 'mungkin' akan sulit dipahami oleh banyak orang, tetapi aku hanya ingin berbagi, semoga kalian menyukainya ^^ Salam Hangat, Manusia Biasa

Sebuah esai yang aku tulis berdasarkan pengalaman dan percakapanku saat berkonsultasi dengan psikolog dan konselorku. Cerita ini mungkin bisa menjadi penguat bagi kalian yang sedang dalam kebingungan dan sedang mengalami quarter life crisis seperti aku.

Arletta Maheswari, seorang Customer Service Bank berusia 24 tahun. Berjuang melewati fase Quarter Life Crisis. Ia akhirnya berhasil melupakan kandasnya cerita cinta 5 tahun bersama Reno, sang Vocalis Band. Disaat rasanya dunia seakan runtuh untuknya. Tiba-tiba ia bertemu sosok yang begitu berbeda. Yang merubah segalanya begitu indah untuk Letta. Sosok itu adalah Nareswara yang merupakan Manager Bank berusia 27 tahun. Dengan berlandaskan kisah yang sama, Nares dan Letta saling menguatkan untuk bisa sama-sama move on dari masa lalu. Segala hal awalnya terasa begitu sempurna untuk mereka. Sebelum masa lalu kembali menghampiri mereka. Ketika Letta telah yakin bahwa Nareswara is really The One. Tiba-tiba saja banyak hal terjadi pada mereka. Selain barisan para mantan, first love pun hadir diantara mereka. Akankah Letta menyerah dan melepaskan keyakinannya selama ini akan Nares?

Bad ideas. Maybe? How could you smile with those teary eyes. You are lying. Aren't you.

Ini adalah hal yang engga jelas yang ada di isi kepala gw.

Elara thought she had it all figured out- graduate, land a good job, and chase the future she had always dreamed of. But two years after finishing her degree, she finds herself stuck in a cycle of unanswered applications, well-meaning but suffocating family expectations, and the quiet fear that maybe she's not enough. As she drifts through long days of job hunting and silent battles with self-doubt, Elara also struggles to keep up with the world outside-navigating friendships that seem to be moving forward without her, a long-time boyfriend who reassures her but can't fully understand, and the growing pressure to have an answer to "What's next?" Dreams and Deadlines is a heartfelt journey through the in-between-the space between hope and disappointment, dreams and reality, expectations and self-discovery, and the delicate balancing act of love, ambition, and uncertainty.

Family. Friends. Studies. Love. Life. How does one juggle through everything without falling apart? How easy is it romanticize failure? Going through college and moving on to adulthood, two friends share each others company as they go through each of their own miseries. ----------------------------------------------

Susan is an art student who feels lost. While her friends are getting cool internships at big companies and posting their success on social media, Susan is stuck with messy sketches and boring lab reports. ​Every time she looks at her own paintings, she only sees failure. She feels like she is falling behind while everyone else is running fast toward their dreams. ​Is being "good" enough to survive? Can she find her own path when the world feels too loud and competitive? ​This is a story about feeling invisible, the fear of failing, and finding a small spark of hope in the middle of a quarter-life crisis.

At 21, Tom Harrison's life was supposed to be coming together-but instead, it's falling apart. Broke, drowning in college deadlines, and stuck in a soul-crushing job, he's barely holding it together. The future he's chasing feels more like a trap than a dream. Between fleeting romances and gut-wrenching betrayals, Tom is forced to confront the harsh realities of love, identity, and adulthood. Every failure feels like the end of the world, and every success is just out of reach. But as he stumbles through heartbreak, chaos, and the weight of his own expectations, Tom begins to discover something bigger: the messy, beautiful truth about finding your place in the world in the midst of your twenties. ________________________________________________ Theme: Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ+, Romance, Coming of Age, Interracial © 2024 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

This story started when I got my first job.

Laid off and adrift, 28-year-old Joe Cheah seeks refuge in his digital archive of "Haven," an online forum from a more vibrant past. Driven by a sense of disconnection, he embarks on a quest to find the real people behind the usernames that once meant so much, especially the witty Sabrina_Fox, now a designer in Melbourne. But his journey from Kuala Lumpur into the lives of his former online friends unearths more than just nostalgia. Each encounter-with a struggling mother, a pragmatic activist, a quiet artist-chips away at his idealized memories, forcing him to confront uncomfortable truths about the past, the present, and himself. As Joe closes in on Sabrina, a decade-old regret surfaces, and he must decide if he's merely a "nostalgic tourist" or if he can forge genuine connections in the here and now. Can the archivist of lost memories become the architect of a new future?

When faced with the necessity to make mature decisions about her career and relationships, a young woman chooses escapism through cryogenics. Jumping through time, she observes her family and friends live on and age.

Life is confusing. Let me tell you why.

Quarter life crisis - Introduction

Kinanthi dan Jonathan memutuskan untuk dekat bahkan menjalin hubungan berpacaran dengan begitu mudah, seolah semua hal bisa terjadi begitu saja tanpa aba-aba ketika dua manusia sudah terlanjur jatuh cinta. Tetapi bukankah itu berarti juga membuka kesempatan kepada masalah agar tiba tanpa aba-aba juga? Menghadirkan sosok Tristan yang begitu menenangkan. Sehingga ketika Kinanthi dihadapkan pada satu pilihan saja yang harus diambilnya. Ia tidak tahu, apakah sebaiknya bersama dengan satu orang yang datang menjanjikan masa depan, atau justru dengan ia yang datang dari waktu bernama masa lalu.

In a time where humanity has just learned the morals and places of society, where hove of horses and wheels of carriages clamber on the roads of small towns, and big cities. A time where castles stood high and strong as a reminder to people that power is a birth right, and that power is to rule a land and all its subjects. In this time, we come to focus on a young woman, and her journey to self discovery. Where she finds herself in strange situations, at very inappropriate times, with eccentric, and powerful people, at unexpected places.