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The dilemmas and questions of the twenty-something years can lead to another common and completely opposite reaction: rather than racing around in a fun-filled frenzy to avoid self-reflection, we allow our lack of direction to stop us completely. Where once we moved with purpose and excitement, now we hardly move at all.

“I thought I’d be at a different place by now. I’m twenty-seven, I’m broke, still living with my parents, and still working at the same job I had in college.”

Bookstore employee, 27, single, Ohio

Common estimates are that approximately 48 percent of students who graduate from college move back into their parents’ home either right after school or several years afterward. This group of twenty-something “boomerangers” often get stuck in a never-never land made very comfortable by their parents. Though it looks different than the Peter Pan Syndrome, I think this is the same type of reaction to the overwhelming pressures and expectations twenty somethings feel, particularly among those who were overachievers in high school and college. Many twenty somethings run out of steam, feel overwhelmed by financial burdens, develop a defeatist attitude, and get stuck — hiding from the responsibilities, choices, and disappointments adulthood brings.

“COMPLACENCY” by Luke, 23