Unlike the quarter life crisis, which causes its suffers to become moopy and disillusioned, people experiencing the quarter-life adventure are usually exciting and awesome.

Instead of giving in to the pressure to become a responsible and productive member of society, quarter life adventurers go wild and use the experience to justify anything and everything that they want to do. Most quarter life adventurers quit their jobs if they have one to go travel and seek adventure. It is an extremely wild and unconventional thing to do, but nonetheless pretty awesome. After all, life's too short to be anything but happy.

A portmanteau of carpe diem, a Latin phrase that means “Seize the Day!” and DM, which stands for Direct Messages. This word means seizing the day via DMs.