“We all do foolish things when we are teenagers. We all have foolish false events that happen to us,…”
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We all do foolish things when we are teenagers. We all have foolish false events that happen to us, foolish gaps in our memories. Not everything that has happened, has ever really happened.
Listeners, especially our younger listeners, consider this:
When we talk about teenagers, we adults often talk with an air of scorn, of expectation for disappointment. And this can make people who are presently teenagers feel very defensive.
But what everyone should understand is that none of us are talking to the teenagers that exist now, but talking back to the teenager we ourselves once were – all stupid mistakes and lack of fear, and bodies that hadn’t yet begun to slump into a lasting nothing.
Any teenager who exists now is incidental to the potent mix of nostalgia and shame with which we speak to our younger selves.
May we all remember what it was like to be so young. May we remember it factually, and not remember anything that is false, or incorrect.
May we all be human – beautiful, stupid, temporal, endless.
And as the sun sets, I place my hand upon my heart, feel that it is still beating, and remind myself: Past performance is not a predictor of future results.
Stay tuned now for whatever happens next in your life.
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Welcome to Night Vale
Episode 33 – Cassette
(via nightvalequotes)
I’ve never watched listened to a WTNV episode, and usually just skip it on my dash (and there’s a lot of it to skip, which I realize is trying to tell me something). But this quotation really speaks to me, coming as it does in the midst of my ongoing struggle to be a positive influence (which lately often means being a pain in the ass) in the life of my teenage child.
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/65473725937.
