Following your bliss is a recipe for paralysis if you don’t know what you are passionate about. A better motto for most youth is “master something， anything”. Through mastery of one thing， you can drift towards extensions of that mastery that bring you more joy， and eventually discover where your bliss is.

There is no way you can live an adequate life without making mistakes.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

I don’t love novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

I don’t need validation, I know my worth.

Liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government."