In your teens and your 20s, you're immortal, you're untouchable. It's only later that you begin to realize you are mortal. (2004)
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- He reflects that young people often feel immortal until life experience teaches them their mortality.
- In plain terms
- Teens think they cannot die, but adults eventually realize they can.
- What can you take from it?
- Youth often lacks awareness of human vulnerability.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When did you feel vulnerable?
- What changes with age?
Another view
Some people realize mortality earlier due to trauma or illness.
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