One of the reasons I like the company of teens is that I get to experience their unique, fresh authenticity..by turns rueful, comical, acutely observant, stripped of artifice, full of true feeling. I was about to say this is a general observation, but in trying to think of exceptions, couldn't come up with any. FML,MLIG, and everything in between, they seem to roll with it all. How do we manage to lose that openness along the way to adulthood?

I think of ordinariness as the awareness of whatever shows up in the moment: "oh, this is what is happening now", emo content notwithstanding.