Forgive me, because I'm sure you are as thoughtful as you say you are - but, as someone now a number of years past their teenage years (and who tried hard to be

Forgive me, because I'm sure you are as thoughtful as you say you are - but, as someone now a number of years past their teenage years (and who tried hard to be similarly thoughtful) I would argue that you will be even more so in a decade or two. I don't dispute how you are now, but I promise you'll be all that and more. And that was the point of the previous poster, I believe.