Jeff Kaplan: evaluation

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…That’s so painful. It’s ’cause you’ve invested so much of yourself, of who you are, of the dreams you’ve had, of this just whole conception of yourself, and you’re watching yourself slide down in terms of becoming isolated, suffering more and more. And then you just have to somehow figure out how to get out of that. And it is true. In that situation, the way to get out is the dumpster. Is to cut it off. Is there advice you can extract from that? There’s a lot of young folks who are in that same situation. Yeah. I, this is one of those hindsight things where, you know, having gone through it and ended up okay on the other side, which you don’t know at the time, you know? When you’re a young person in your late teens or early 20s, there’s so much pressure on you. And I really think adults don’t help. You know? Every time you run into the younger nephew or whoever and you start to say things like, “Oh, what’s your major? What are you gonna do with that?” “What do you wanna be?” It’s such bullshit to do to a human being. You know? You’re so lost in the world. I mean, most of us are lost our entire lives, but especially in your 20s, you know, like, you’re lost. So the questions like, yeah, “What are you doing? What’s your major? What’s the career?” And so on, that’s not the point, man. I’m trying to move through the world, I’m trying to run through the world to find the thing that sparks my heart, to find the passion, to find what I’m meant to be on this earth for. And there are really, I mean, that is a real hero’s journey of searching as a young person. That’s a real, like, you know, all the adults, with their wisdom, they’ve stopped searching often. They’ve done the lazy, the comfortable thing. They found their thing. And so now they look back, they don’t remember how much suffering and how much uncertainty that young people have to deal with.…

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