When I was little, I thought that being an adult was the best thing in the world. I couldn't wait to be 18-years-old so we could be considered an adult. Now I'm 20-years-old and this weekend I'm moving into my first apartment. As I pack up my childhood room I keep thinking, "I'm not ready. I don't want to be an adult." I mean I do... sort of.

I want my own place where I can make my own schedule and eat what I want. But I don't want all the responsibilities that come with that and I definitely don't have my life figured out enough to actually be an adult yet. I don't even know what I want to do with my life yet.

So here I am in my early 20s, having what I am now calling a quarter-life crisis. As I type this, I'm listening to music from the 2000s, trying to will myself back to my early years when all I had to worry about was what color crayon to use next.

I've noticed that I'm not the only one having this problem. In most of my conversations with my peers, they say the same thing. They are not ready to be tossed out into the real world. Most of us can barely believe that we're over halfway done with college! I'm pretty sure I just graduated high school yesterday.

We are walking the fine line that links a college adult to a real adult and we're running out of space. Soon we'll have grown-up jobs that are 9-to-5, five days a week. We'll be scheduling vacations at the end of the year when we know we don't need them for an emergency. We'll be figuring out how to pay off the student loans we're currently accumulating and dreaming about the day trips to random cities that we used to take after class.

But we're not quite there yet. We can still stay up until 3 a.m. to finish that paper and still make it to class on time. We can still take Fridays off to go explore or just hang out at home. We still get breaks every few weeks to do whatever we want. This is our world. There is so much that we can do in these last few years of our young adult years.

So, here's where the pep talk begins. We are in the prime of our lives. We won't have too many days of hanging out by the pool with a group of friends in the afternoon. Now is the time to make the memories that we'll think of longingly in 20 years as we head to work. This is the time to be a little wild and spontaneous, to travel just because and to spend a day in bed to recharge. It's unlikely that you'll get this chance again once we're thrown out into the harsh world of reality. Go and have your quarter-life crisis. Afterwards, live your life so you can try to recreate it for your mid-life crisis.