MO Quotes

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

At 21, you've come out of the craziness. Maybe you've been to university, but now it's time to get serious. It's the age where you make decisions about your life.

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you're going to do.

I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

It's very bizarre to me to now really be a grown-up. I kind of can't believe that I'm there because I certainly don't feel that way a lot of the time.

I definitely don't think I'm going to have a mid-life crisis.

I'm, like, finishing up high school. I don't know how you can learn anything from me because I'm still, like, a teenager. I don't know what I'm doing with my life.

I've always felt unsure of exactly what I wanted to do with my life, but I have these rare moments of total clarity where everything is perfectly clear.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.

There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're not 'ready?' You don't feel entirely settled in any aspect of your life, even if you are on paper.

Sometimes I'll be sitting on Facebook at home and see all these people getting married, having kids, having that life that I was told I should have. And sometimes I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Am I the stupid one here? Am I not doing what I'm supposed to do? And that's also equally as stressful.

After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.

I felt different at 29 because 29, to me, is 30. There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?