Gull Beckerman

And this, I think, speaks to a teenager's mind, you know, as they're trying to figure out who they're going to be, you know, how much lightness and how much weight do they want in their lives. And I just remember the distillation of that philosophy of what is essentially, you know, Sartrean thought, right?

into this very simple and evocative metaphor of lightness and weight really spoke to me when I was at that moment in my life where I wanted to kind of understand how I was going to shape my own identity through the choices that I made. My name is Gull Beckerman. I'm a staff writer at The Atlantic.

into this very simple and evocative metaphor of lightness and weight really spoke to me when I was at that moment in my life where I wanted to kind of understand how I was going to shape my own identity through the choices that I made. My name is Gull Beckerman. I'm a staff writer at The Atlantic.

into this very simple and evocative metaphor of lightness and weight really spoke to me when I was at that moment in my life where I wanted to kind of understand how I was going to shape my own identity through the choices that I made. My name is Gull Beckerman. I'm a staff writer at The Atlantic.