I tried reading this, but for some reason I can't connect with it. The ideas that the author wrote seems very foreign to me (born and raised in Asia).
For example, this doesn't ring a bell :
> You thought that doing this – taking drugs, lying to your best friend – would give you the life you wanted; and then it doesn’t
Or this:
> You have to be bad in order to discover what kind of good you want to be (or are able to be).
To me, what was considered "good" was clearly laid out by parents and schools. I think it's the same here in the US: a large portion of the population follow the definition of "good" from their parents and churches (a bit less so from schools)
I would love to have some help to understand the article's viewpoint better.
For example, this doesn't ring a bell :
> You thought that doing this – taking drugs, lying to your best friend – would give you the life you wanted; and then it doesn’t
Or this:
> You have to be bad in order to discover what kind of good you want to be (or are able to be).
To me, what was considered "good" was clearly laid out by parents and schools. I think it's the same here in the US: a large portion of the population follow the definition of "good" from their parents and churches (a bit less so from schools)
I would love to have some help to understand the article's viewpoint better.