Everyone holds a certain type of power. For young people, it's their youth, their attractiveness, and their energy. But they're terrified that as those qualities fade, what are they going to replace that form of power with?

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.

I think that young people are less attached to items and objects now. They're less attached to consuming things and accruing things because they see it as a system that doesn't necessarily work and give them a sense of adulthood and fulfillment. They're much more in tune with wanting to achieve a skill, a form of self-expression, or a body of knowledge that fulfills the same function, fulfills their adulthood.