You Are a Badass

I know the big saying is “youth is wasted
on the young,” but I think, in certain
respects anyway, we’ve really got it
going on in our late teens and early
twenties. Aside from all the angst and
drama and escorts home from the police,
we’ve still got our little kid-like ability
to create “just because” still firmly
intact, but we’ve also got this newly-
hatched adult ability to make big things
happen in our lives. Add to this the fact
that we’re not yet jaded by a long list of
failures, and are still under the vague
impression that death is something that
happens to other people, we, if you’re
anything like me, leap into our lives
when we’re young with an idiotic, yet