Due to the nature of my IRL job in health care, I regularly interact with teenagers – most of whom lead me to believe that they’re experiencing a reality to which I cannot possibly relate. Yet, even in 2024, one thing appears to remain true as it was 30 years prior, when I was just barely a teen: most teenagers have no real concept of age. In the past several months, I’ve been estimated to be anywhere between 24 and 55 years old.
It’s not their fault; the profound physical and emotional growth that occurs within the span of even a few months means that an 11th grader might seem like an alien to someone in 8th grade. And once you get past that immediate peer group, there’s this undifferentiated block of human beings that are simply “adults.” Teachers or dentists or family friends or even celebrities and athletes might be 26 or 35 or 43, but because they have some degree of authority, in reality they’re “adults” and therefore “old.
” They might appear to be or olds, but still – . I say all this to preface the dull fact that Sarah McLachlan was 26 when she released , currently being celebrated with a robust 30-year anniversary tour. To put things into perspective, here’s a list of musicians who are 26 years old right now: Faye Webster, Sexyy Red, Jack Harlow, FINNEAS.
She was born in 1968, a year after Scott Weiland, Kurt Cobain, and Billy Corgan, the artists who were largely responsible for shaping my worldview as a 14-year-old boy while climbed the c.
