It is arguably as much or more by making and keeping promises than by dabbling and deferring that we come to know who we as persons really are and are called to become. Emerging adult culture today thus seems to assume more than a little that deserves some hard criticism.
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For most American youth, there extends between high school graduation day and the eventual settling down with spouse, career, kids, and house a very long stretch of time in which to have to figure out life. For many, it is marked by immense autonomy, freedom of choice, lack of obligations, and focus on the self. It is also normally marked by high instability, experimentation, and uncertainty. For many, emotions run high and low, as hopes and exhilaration recurrently run up against confusion and frustration.