Meg Jay

span of one generation

a passenger in her own life.

“The unlived life is not worth examining.”

seemed unfair to talk about her weekends when it was her weekdays that made her so unhappy.

“hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

The postmillennial midlife crisis is figuring out that while we were busy making sure we didn’t miss out on anything, we were setting ourselves up to miss out on some of the most important things of all.

Right after takeoff, a slight change in course is the difference between landing in either Seattle or San Diego. But once a plane is nearly in San Diego, only a big detour will redirect it to the northwest.

The twenties are an up-in-the-air and turbulent time, but if we can figure out how to navigate, even a little bit at a time, we can get further, faster, than at any other stage in life

We are born not all at once, but by bits.

He felt that a true and authentic identity should not be rushed and, to that end, he advocated for a period of delay when youth could safely explore without real risk or obligation.