The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.
Interpretation
Adolescence brings overwhelming emotions and experiences that feel limitless, but with time, we gain perspective and learn about endurance.
This quote reflects the tumultuous nature of adolescence, highlighting how young individuals often perceive their emotions and experiences as immense and unmanageable. It suggests that the pain and joy of this stage are intense and can feel eternal; however, as one matures, they gain the wisdom and context needed to understand their experiences. Through this process, we learn about our own resilience and come to appreciate that all things, whether good or bad, are transient.
In practice
In a youth seminar focusing on emotional health, this quote can illustrate the challenges of growing up.
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.
...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12 and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but also my work as well.
joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)
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