It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.
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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
Young people want you to be real with them.
There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.
It's bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody's miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity.
What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.
Young people are fascinated with the idea of love, maybe because they haven't experienced it. The older you get, the more jaded you become with this, like, mystical love thing. It's not as exciting because it's not unknown.
In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that landscape starts to shift. Many singletons turn inward and start longing for the things so many of us longed to be free of in our 20s.
I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.
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