МИСЛЕЊЕ
About being young, talking w ith mom and dad, searching out there and building your future
One of the defining traits of youth is that the amount of life we have yet to live is much greater than the one we have lived so far. Being young is being a subject in the kingdom of the -ing, experiencing, experimenting, maturing; not in the kingdom of the -ed, experienced, experimented, matured. Being young means that your life is not mostly about what has happened or what you have done so far (because, well, it hasn’t been so much yet, actually) but the possibilities, the horizon ahead of you, what is yet to come and happen, what you will turn into. We, poor or blessed young people, spend a great deal of our time dreaming and thinking about, and doing things for, our future. Projecting. Planning. Working step by step in order to. Building a path. Building ourselves.
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es, it sounds obvious, and it can and should be amazing, given the fascinating freedom and possibilities that it entails - to be, to do, to try, to make mistakes, realizations and choices, while everything is open. But it can (and I dare say should be, to a healthily limited extent) anguishing, given the insecurities and uncertainties that are also a part of the process... About oneself, about making the right decisions at the right time, about the context, about factors that don’t always depend on you but to a certain extent determine what will be. So.... how best to do deal with it, while enjoying it, exploring and discovering yourself and the world, and not getting entirely anxious, obsessed or downright crazy?
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