Think about what it means to be a teenager. Your parents pressure you to succeed. Social media pressures you to hate your body. It’s hard even though you’re a well adjusted kid from a good family. So now imagine you can’t be with a person you love like Romeo and Juliet or you lose the person that you love like Holden or Conrad. There’s a reason why when every author from Shakespeare to Salinger, write about young people, they can’t avoid the truth that being young is so painful it’s almost too much to feel.