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Today I had the honor of speaking at the UNIS conference at the UN. After I was finished, three students recited original poems from the stage. One of them really blew me away:
Fluorescent Adolescence
Overqualified yet underachievingIt’s singing delightfully off key to the radioYet pitch perfect in the showerIt’s spending a half hour in the morningPerfecting your messy bunIt’s gelling bedheadIt’s lifting weights yet covering yourself up in turtlenecksIt’s being a closet philosopher but blaming lackluster grades on “not trying?”It’s tumbling, sharing, instagrammingThe perpetual pursuit of cool but aloof,hard to get,wit,sarcasm,invincibility.
It’s the cycle of hurtingFixinglovinghatingwantinglying… and then telling the truth.It sucks.But perhaps when we’re oldera new set of problems will cause us to miss those of adolescence.So I guess we should learn to love the pain,Since it’s pain that allows us to live and love radically,feel monumentally,and smell the coffee or watch the stars, or hear the musicthat we might later pass by in the rush of the real world.
For now we are poetsAnd activistsAstronautsBloggersWritersPhotographersTeachersEngineers and InventorsFor now, we are what we want to be.Some say the grass is greener on the other side but I’d disagree:I say our grass fluorescent.

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Wildfox Liberty Muscle Tank (from DearFieldbinder), H&M Leopard Skinnies, ASOS Suede Boots, Unif Trench Coat & Zara Suede Bag. (image: befrassy)

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Balenciaga, spring 2006

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blanco.

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