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Such a long meandering ramble to say that personalities tend to settle at the same age that the rest of our bodies reach maturity.
by Evbn 14y ago
Such a long meandering ramble to say that personalities tend to settle at the same age that the rest of our bodies reach maturity.
- neltnerb 14y agoAnd such a sad sentiment too. I think about high school days... almost never? And I enjoyed them at the time. What's the saying, "If high school was the best time of your life, you've wasted your life?" What an article of pointless sentiments. I would have probably gone to parties with cute popular kids in high school, but I hardly care about such things now. I throw far better parties, and know far cuter people now...
- jpxxx 14y agoHow lovely for you. Now: the thrust of the piece is that for many, the status you assign yourself (and have assigned for you) in adolescence persists through adulthood.
- _dark_matter_ 14y agoI was two pages in before I called it quits.
- benjohnson 14y agoThere's a useful idea toward the end: How a "box of strangers" tends to have cause the same social stress as a typical high school. Think of large companies, legislative bodies, or any other place where you're forced to deal with a large group of strangers.