2. Things fall down. "Oblivion is inevitable," as John Green says. It's like those kids at the beach building a lake out of sand, right up by the water. The waves come everytime and they just build it up again and again. But if one kid decided to make his lake out of a plastic bucket it wouldn't be nearly as fun. So we work on different pieces of life and we just keep building them up and up and we can make wet sand walls instead off flimsy dry walls, we can make concrete walls, wooden walls. But sometime, it's all gonna collapse and be over.
3. We're not ever really "big kids." Sure, we get bigger, but there's like some superior knowledge or something that you're supposed to just get all of a sudden. It doesn't come. Another metaphor: tubing with my sister is hilarious. She just goes again and again and she does crazy things. But if you look at her feet, they don't really touch the bottom of the tube. So the rest of us are stretching our legs to press against the tube, to keep us in, and she's over there falling out and laughing. When she gets bigger, she'll be able to reach the end of the tube. The secret? She won't stop falling out. We're all just little kids, bouncing around, falling off. And we just have to laugh it off. We have to keep saying, "Again!"
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