I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years. - Lewis, Surprised by Joy.
I love that. Your thoughts are so BIG when you’re twelve or thirteen. Every insight and realization feels momentous.
It's probably why, when you're in your teens, *everything* is so life-and-death important to you.
I think a lot of us might do well to remember just how intense and urgent those feelings & thoughts are.