3 Things I’ve learnt while having an existential crisis.

Stephen Walker
4 min readFeb 15, 2019
Source : www.poorlydrawnlines.com

Firstly this isn’t a doom and gloom end of the world post. It’s more of an enlightenment kind of post.

The definition of an existential crisis for anyone who hasn’t heard of the term before:

“An existential crisis is a moment at which an individual questions if their life has meaning, purpose, or value. It may be commonly, but not necessarily, tied to depression or inevitably negative speculations on purpose in life.”

It’s pretty deep but broad and the interpretation is massive.

After reading a shit load of personal development books, philosophy and really weird culturally driven articles something just opened up and I had that massive;

What the fuck moment…

You end up staying up all night, re-thinking EVERY choice in life you’ve made. Every decision that could have been altered but you never did and now you’re where you are.

Is it good, bad or neutral?

This happened to me halfway through 2017.

I’ve done multiple pivots, learning and perfecting so many skills because I want to be known for so many things.

--

--