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Like human happiness, teenage happiness does not flourish when everyone has the freedom to live just as they please. Where there is neither order nor necessity in life—no constraints, no inhibitions, no discomfort—life becomes both relaxing and boring, as American philosopher Allan Bloom notes. A soft imprisonment.
Ruby LaRocca • A Constitution for Teenage Happiness
Teens are this grisly combination of suppressed rage, sexual confusion, vanity, and unrelenting incompetence, but there may be a redeeming sweetness there, somewhere, buried very deep. Just imagine Donald Trump but more agile. Or a turkey vulture. There is a constant war between needing affirmation and shunning affirmation.
H. Jon Benjamin • Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir
We’re not the first cohort to experience a crisis. To experience the passing of time. And by passing of time, I mean the dawning realisation that time is finite, and we might have already wasted a lot. We used to have time to burn. But it was a late blooming into misery.
While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for Mil... See more
While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for Mil... See more
Bride Jabour • ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy
As Quarterlifers went into the world to find out who they were, they would be guided by their instincts and curiosities and gradually learn about themselves. But since academia has extended the length of structured, external development well into people’s twenties, the concept of living guided by instinct has become undervalued and is now just view
... See moreSatya Doyle Byock • Quarterlife
It is not that these teenagers grow up before their time; it is that they grow up learning to respond authentically to real sorrow and loss as well as to intense joy; they learn to channel these feelings in a socially constructive manner; perhaps most important of all they learn to feel things deeply. And they learn to remember.