"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life [...] Partly it is due to having successfully dismissed certain objects of desire - such as the acquisition of indubitable knowledge about something or other - as
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As a teenager, life is all about discovering and accepting the self, since one doesn't really have full self-awareness as a child. Accepting oneself is always a little traumatic, particularly when so much is changing. Adults(from what I can tell) gain awareness of the world around them and begin to see the self as a tool through which they can move the outside world, instead of being so self involved and emo(lol). Introspection is a positive, but "me, myself and I" should take a secondary role to the things that this "me" does.
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