“Why Do Songs and Art from Your Teenage Years Stick with You? Chemical Elements in Our Bodies Hold the Key”

“I have to say that I’ve been digging into this question – why does it always feel like songs or art or anything that’s in your teenage years, why does it stay with you for the rest of your life and feel like it’s the best thing ever? It has a lot to do with the chemical elements in our body. Because in our teenage years, between 10 and 20 years old, big changes happen in us, and as a result of these changes, we perceive the world very vividly – we are like a sponge that absorbs information very strongly at that time,” says Cowper. Horen also joins him: “And any color is a bright color, there are no shades of gray at all. They appear later.” “Bright colors stay with us for life,” adds Cowper.

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