When I was 25, I bought a used motorcycle. I didn’t know how to ride it, per se, but ride — and crash — I did, anyways. My friends all made fun of me: “Oh, look, there goes Jeff on his quarter-life-crisis mobile,” “what a dumb bike,” yada yada yada.
And it was dumb, I admit it. I stopped riding once I realized it actually scared the shit out of me, and the motorcycle sat on the side of my house collecting rust for years before I finally “sold” it to Kars4Kids.
Long story short, my quarter-life crisis was a disaster. But as it turns out, not all midlife (and quarter-life) crises have to be.
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Jeff Gross is MEL’s senior editor for social media and content marketing. His daily ICYMI column, which chronicles all things meta on the site, is the quickest way to catch up on MEL, and the funniest thing you’ll read all day. Follow him on Twitter.
