What advice would you give to your teenage self?

I must be honest and completely truthful. Contrary to what great G.K. Chesterton said about the program of public schools. He mentioned it’s utterly blatant and indecent disregard of the duty of telling the truth. He also referred to a blinding network of news phraseology that obscures and entangles us.

The truth is that from a very young age, I was looking to find. Together with what my purpose of existence is. Maybe experiencing the death of my closest family members contributed to that.

Then, at the age of 10, I started writing poems about life and truth. I explored awareness and graveyards. I wrote about sun and rain, wind and snow, winter and summer. My poems also touched on love and togetherness as I tried to define my life purpose!

I did not know what the title of my thesis would be. How would I “baptize” it and leave it behind me when I am gone?

But I still continued writing down my thoughts whenever I had a moment, keeping a paper and pencil with me at all times.

I don’t want to bother you more with my feelings of faith, beauty, and universal love. These values, including truth and justice for all, are important to me. I think the best advice I could give to myself at the time was to focus on being aware. I should become one of the Guardians of Positive, Human Memories!

I came to that conclusion at a later stage of my life. I was still young but not a teenager.

Then I realized that I was living experiences. I was also creating memories. These memories needed to be closely guarded. They should stay for those coming after us…

My comprehension was always something different. It was not like the binary systems we are taught to implement in our everyday life. It was as someone before me called it Intermediate Way. At the time, I could not define it. I understood that a couple of my closest friends and I were somehow different. We used to escape from some lessons. Bad? Noooooo! We would then gather in the nearby cafe. There, we’d create our own lessons about existence, life purpose, intuition, and feelings.

Let me share one thing.

“Take a sheet of paper. Pierce two holes in it, close together. Obviously, as common sense tells us, an object small enough to go through these holes will go through either one or the other. By the same logic, an electron is an object. It has a definite weight and produces a ray of light when it strikes a TV screen and a shock when it hits a microphone. That is the object small enough to go through one of those small holes. But the electronic microscope will tell us that the electron has gone through both! Indeed!

So, the structure using the binary system has to be changed. Did we change it?

Or this question is presented in the video below

When I started asking myself what is dying and what is living, I realized something important. There are intermediate states in-between. We somehow refuse to recognize these states and LIVE THE LIFE!

Let us all become GUARDIANS OF MEMORIES! Especially those promoting values and positive content!

Someone said that “What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right!”

And in between wrong and right is a whole life! AND A TIME FOR A COFFEE!

Darko Richard Lancelot

February 24, 2026

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