Adolescence
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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