Everyone knows that the teenage years are a time ofprofound emotion. The moody, exuberant, passionate, lethargic teen is a figure that has a special place in the hall of fame of clichés–and for good reason. It’s all true. When we ourselves are teenagers, we are living life as it comes. There is no point in reflection. We are so inexperienced, there is very little to reflect on. If we fail a big test, we just move on. We win an award and we smile and say thank you. We fall in love and it’s a thrill. We get our hearts broken and we suffer. And we feel all of these highs and lows in our absolute core; it feels as if it’s never happened to anyone else because it’s never happened to us before. Only later can we look back in the comfort that perspective brings. Rob Lowe
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When we experience something new, the shock of it is often overwhelming. The shock of falling in love for the first time, for example, must surely be the strongest of all. But as we grow older, our memories become more nuanced and so becomes our understanding of what we felt at the time. And so it is not so much the emotions themselves that change but our understanding of them. Love may be experienced as a physical phenomenon now but now that we are older it takes on a different emotional quality.

Source: Stories I Only Tell My Friends

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