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Joe Hill

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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.

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L. Wednesday's avatar L. Wednesday @lizzywednesday.bsky.social
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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.

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KyrQs's avatar KyrQs @kyrqslive.bsky.social
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And we rethink just about everything afterward, and call our old selves stupid, except for religion and our parents.

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Michael Saulters's avatar Michael Saulters @msaulters.bsky.social
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And then next thing you know, you're 40 and looking back at how excited you were by ideas that were already 50 years old when they were new to you.

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