Adolescence is a fascinating and crazy time of life.
It reminds me of the early space probes that blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. I remember my excitement in the early 1960s when Colonel John Glenn and the other astronauts embarked on their perilous journeys into space. People who lived through those years will recall that a period of maximum danger occurred as each spacecraft was re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The flier inside was entirely dependent on the heat-shield at the bottom of the capsule to protect him from temperatures in excess of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. If the craft descended at the wrong angle, the astronaut would be burned to cinders.