The age you are right now is the only time you’ll ever get to be this age. That’s not pressure. It’s permission.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Being sixteen is not a rehearsal for a better version of being sixteen. The particular mix you have now, this much energy and this little responsibility, these friends in one building, exists for about a year. None of that is an instruction to achieve more. It means you are allowed to spend this age on things that only make sense at this age.
Do one thing this week that is good only because you are the age you are: a pointless drive with friends, a sport you are bad at, staying out for the whole thing. Nobody is grading it, and that is exactly the point.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What would you do with permission to be exactly your age?
MORE IN TIME, MORTALITY & LEGACY
- Sand in an hourglass never runs back up on its own. Somebody has to flip it. Fresh starts work the same way.
- Yearbooks are funny because everyone thought that version of them was permanent.
- Graduation speeches promise you’ll change the world. Start by changing one person’s day. It counts more than you think.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.