HIMYM Dumps Gasoline on Your Quarter Life Crisis
People my age go through a little bit of a quarter life crisis. Whether you're single or in a relationship, employed or unemployed, in school or out of school - we are conflicted with an inner battle of Intimacy vs Isolation. Every experience and decision comes with varying feelings of being lost, confused, and fear. Graduations, weddings, new jobs - events that would seem otherwise joyful only make you feel lonelier than ever. TV is our escape. We connect with our long lost friends (we haven't seen each other in months) by sharing texts about our favorite shows, post silly memes on each others walls, and when we get together we watch entire seasons in one sitting. TV is the water we use to quench the flames of our quarter life crisis. Anyways enough rambling, here's my take on how the series How I Met Your Mother wrapped it all up and turned your controlled burn into a raging inferno.
Your job situation. Whether you went to school to be a professional or you have talent and a passion and just need to find a way to make money with it, if you're in a quarter life crisis, you're constantly lost trying to find what it is you want to do - time is running out. Hope is fleeting - those Jobs you aren't getting, you will never be qualified for. I mean seriously? When will you ever have 5 years experience in the field? That talent and passion feels like wasted energy and you might as well settle down and move on. In our eyes, being Marshall is probably our best hope which is really not that bad - if you don't mind selling your soul, hating every day at work, and putting your heart-disease-genes through some stress tests.
Oh so you do have a great job? Well never mind that. I mean, never mind finding true happiness before you're 45, divorced and without true friends. I get it... HIMYM was in a pickle with Robin. If she ended up happily ever after with Barney, we would be asking, "well why does a career girl need a man at all?" And yet here we are asking "why can't a career girl find intimacy and hold down a relationship?" This is only our greatest fear since potty training - having to choose between relationships and work. I think we all kid ourselves saying we can find "the balance," but thanks TV! Thanks a lot HIMYM! Robin and Barney's divorce = a bundle of sticks.
And Barney. If you're the kind of person who just can't see yourself getting married, but secretly hoping that there is someone who might change your mind, just give up and pour yourself another glass. Pour two, the other one is for the fire. But if you have a kid, maybe you can find some love, but don't expect people to remember your baby daddy/mama's name in any stories they tell their children.
Moving out and saying good bye to old roommates feels like losing comrades in war (most of us don't know what that is like, but it seems rational to make that comparison (THE WORLD IS OVER!). Every reunion afterwards becomes "The Last Time Ever Until Next Time." And good bye at every reunion reminds you of how alone you are without them. Is anyone there? Fire is that you?
Ok maybe you're not relating because you're waiting for my take on Lily and Marshall. Not going to lie this is the ideal situation - i'm biased [insert smile shrug emoticon]. You're in a wonderful nurturing relationship. This quarter life crisis? You're wife/husband has it too and you share the burdens. She makes some money here, he makes some money there. There is a balance of decision making when it comes to family and careers - HIMYM tells us that you will get through this quarter life crisis so long as you find your perfect match. And when you find that soul mate, you'll be alone together.
Put some water on that grease fire.
Finally Ted gets what Lily and Marshall have.
This is fiction, so I am allowed to say what I am about to say. Has Ted learned nothing from Lily and Marshall? Ted never deserved to be happy. Because when you spend as long as you do expecting things to just come together and not put the work and sacrifice into a relationship, you might as well poison your wife so you can get a second chance at WWN Journalist Robin Scherbatsky:
Oh yea. Spoiler Alert.
Thank God for GOT this Sunday. There is no quarter life crisis in Westeros.
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