All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.
As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.
We've all recognized the moment when the world has handed us a situation that is bigger than our youth can handle, and we have to grow up in a second. And when you do get to the other side, all it does is take us to this new level of existence that is more beautiful and more complex and, in some ways, more painful.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.
Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
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