A crisis of some sort is not uncommon for successful people at midlife, but the age of this midlife meltdown has started coming earlier and earlier. People have started talking about a “thrisis” in the thirties and a “quarter-life crisis” in the twenties. I’ve also seen the same pattern in younger people, even adolescents, who have a jam-packed schedule of schoolwork, homework, after-school activities community volunteering, tutoring and test prep. I haven’t heard a catchy name for it yet, but they too suffer the same crisis of the soul that comes from pouring every moment of your time and every ounce of your being into others’ expectations.
— from Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
