Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?
Essays on Conquering the Quarter-Life Crisis
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**An instant New York Times bestseller**
From TikTok star and the author of I Didn’t Know I Needed This Eli Rallo, a reflection on the anxiety of transitioning into adulthood, navigating the quarter-life crisis, and realizing you’re actually not alone.
Does anyone else feel like they’re the only one having a quarter-life crisis? As a senior in college, Eli Rallo expected her post-grad years to be filled with certainty, that she would finally feel that she was the “adult” she had long dreamed she’d be, with a cool job, an amazing apartment, fabulous friends, and lots of fun and flirty date nights. Instead she was met with crippling social anxiety, no idea what direction her career was taking, an inability to stop comparing herself to her peers’ picture-perfect lives on social media, and a looming sense that she may never feel certain—about her dating life, friendships, career, or even herself.
With deep honesty, raw emotions, humor, and relatability, Eli analyzes life in your twenties with a candid and heartfelt approach, asking and answering questions like:
How do you manage losing a best friend?How do you know who you are or what you want to do with your life?How do you find time and space for all of your priorities?How do you navigate the choppy waters of the social media world, and not fall victim to the comparison game?What happens when the timeline you made for yourself as a child is long in your past?How do you know you’re making the right decisions?
Even though early adulthood doesn’t look just like Sex and the City or Thirteen Going on Thirty the way Eli thought it would, with Does Anyone Else Feel This Way? Eli shows you that you’re not the only one who misses the days when they could swing by the dining hall or just wants to call their mom to make it all go away. With a look at her own misadventures and hard-won life lessons, Eli shares the journey she’s been on to find herself as an adult, and the twists and turns she’s taken while navigating her own quarter-life crisis.
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TikTokker Rallo (I Didn't Know I Needed This) reflects on navigating the turbulence of one's 20s in these witty and confessional essays. Many of the entries zero in on the perils of comparison; "Does Anyone Else Know WTF to Do About Imposter Syndrome?" explores the author's struggles with feeling out of place in school and social settings, and calls for an accepting culture where young people can more openly "commiserate and explore and find ourselves together." Elsewhere, "Does Anyone Else Feel Like They Need to Stop Scrolling?" analyzes social media's role in facilitating both connection and alienation that stems from comparison culture. "Does Anyone Else Feel Like They're Having a Quarter-Life Crisis?" unpacks the grief of revising "invisible timelines" for marriage, career, and stability, while also reckoning with the freedom of rewriting expectations. Rallo's voice is conversational and refreshingly funny, particularly when she's skewering the contradictions of "adulting," though the essays tend to circle the same themes—imposter syndrome, self-doubt, and the search for purpose—without offering much in the way of fresh insight. Still, Rallo's candid approach will go a long way toward reassuring young adults that they're not alone.
