Being Young: The Magic, The Mania And The Mistakes!
[I wrote this article as a part of my internship with Insightwalk. The article was first published here .] How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The vigor, the craziness, the intensity and the undying spirit of the youth have been glorified, condemned, critiqued and immortalized by the best musicians, lyricists, authors and poets of our times and of times gone by. The temptation to use clichés, truisms and adages about a theme so ubiquitously found in the works of great artists is indeed irresistible! Albert Camus, the Nobel-prize winning author once remarked, with remarkable economy and accuracy, that “the youth is above all a collection of possibilities.” It is this wide and limitless kaleidoscope of varied possibilities that sets the young apart from the old! As a child enters his teens, a boundless, incomprehens...