It’s oh-so-easy to be so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed when young & innocent. There’s a susceptibility to the contagion of enthusiasm then - whether authentically genuine or ideologically-manipulated for capitalistic ends - that’s almost kind of beautiful, as venturing out to discover all these new exciting things & experiences life has to offer. But things change with age.

All the “choose who you wanna be and what you want, then go make it happen” rhetoric - sure, that sells, and maybe it works… until it doesn’t.