A Zone of Indistinction

Life can feel overwhelming when you’re a teenager. Your physique is changing dramatically while at the same time your emotions are being bombarded by surging hormones and your brain is undergoing its last big developmental phase, a combination that can make it difficult to imagine that anything will ever be more exciting, more tragic, more intense, or more consequential than what you’re going through at That Very Moment. Becoming an adult often helps put things in perspective, since new challenges and milestones provide an opportunity to reflect and realize that maybe those adolescent experiences didn’t always merit the level of distress, melodrama, or obsession that you devoted to them.