Celebrity actors Everyone needs to hear Sara Pascoe’s insightful response to a really great question about being young Oonagh Keating . Updated June 4th, 2024 Share Tweet Sara Pascoe is a successful comedian, actor and author, but a question put to her at the Hay Festival revealed her vulnerability and how it’s also a strength. It was a fantastic question, but an even better answer.
Comedian @sarapascoe tells a young festivalgoer about the lesson she’d give her 14 year old self. pic.twitter.
com/pgaKeBUuqK — Hay Festival (@hayfestival) May 28, 2024 “The really shit thing about being young is that you haven’t been through stuff yet. So, the first time it happens is the worst, right?” “When you get your heart broken for the first time, you’ve got no defences, because you don’t know what’s going to happen. You don’t know how it feels, and you trust.
” “When you’re crying so hard on the floor and you think everything’s done, the horrible thing about older people, maybe your parents, other people who care about you, is when they say ‘You’re going to be okay and this will make you stronger. You were so brave to love in the first place.’ All of it feels so unhelpful.
And when you get your heart broken a second time, it might be just as bad. This is still painful, but it’s painful with the knowledge that you recovered once, and that life went on.” “When I was 14 and I was so unhappy, I hated school, I wasn’t popular.
Everything that I have .