PSA: Things adults couldn’t tell us when we were young even if they tried

Life doesn’t end when you turn twenty.

The stupid things you do may have infinitely less impact than you think they will.

The stupid things you do that have a great impact will seem like absurd acts of chance rather than like great failures, even if they are great failures.

The fact that life doesn’t end when you’re twenty or when you do stupid things means you’ll compromise, again and again – maybe not on your convictions, but on your goals and methods for attaining them; in your relationships and expectations for ‘perfect’ love; and maybe on your convictions.

Most of the convictions you held as a child will seem silly to you looking back, but their sincerity will probably make you think of them and your young self tenderly. You will secretly hold onto as many of them as you can.

Inexplicable sadness is possible and probable. Happiness is by its nature inexplicable.

Kids are blessed by always knowing FOR CERTAIN the reasons for what they do but never being expected to explain them coherently. Adults often don’t understand why they do things, but are almost always expected to know. This seems to be a function of language and how kids and adults are expected to use it: viscerally and professionally, respectively.

If you reach your goals, they will look different than you’d expected when you achieve them, and so will you.

You may achieve your goals and realize they were too small and that you need new ones.