Robin Marantz Henig People Quotations

Through social media, young people are constantly being pinged about a whole slew of potentially better matches or social activities.

To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. It's called the 'reminiscence bump.'

I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people with whom to go do things and go places - people with whom to have a few crazy, memorable bonding adventures.

Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions.

The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life.