“My generation has failed, and we are handing you a broken world, which means you have to be stronger and smarter than we are,” I said, wondering whether they could even name what’s wrong with their world today. It’s all they know. So I asked them to think for themselves, be skeptical of social media, and walk in someone else’s shoes. Put your phones away, I said, because in the end what matters is the people you love. You find meaning by choosing where to spend your precious time. “What you remember are the people whose lives you’ve touched and those whose lives have changed yours.”
