John Green Doesn’t Want You to Lose the Magic of Your Teenage Self

… "We need to put down our armor of cynicism and irony and thinking that we know about everything that matters… We need to put that down sometimes and try to grapple with the beauty of the world as young people do: in an open, vulnerable way. For me, that's where the real magic is. It's cheesy as all get out, but I said earlier that when you're lying down with your friends under a big sky at night and you're looking at the stars and you're conscious of how large the universe is, that's a borderline sacred experience. If you lose that in adulthood, you've lost something really important."

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