The beauty of youth is that it doesn’t know compromise very well. Perhaps it is so fiercely uncompromising because it’s led by a burning passion to face whatever life throws its way. There is a purity in that: a purity of thought, a purity of grit, untouched by the bargains of ego.
The same force that drives youth forward can also turn against it. What matters is not losing the fire, but learning how to hold it.