Almost everyone in the West today surrenders their idealism by age 13 or 14 – just after puberty hits. Most give it up around 5 or 10, altho many good people fight on. A few lose theirs even before 5, such as those with bad, cruel parents who live in a crime-infested ghetto. But I don’t know of a single other person on Earth who maintained their idealism to age 16. And I was able to decently observe at least 4000.
Idealism means the pursuit of high ideals and noble goals. It means thinking, thinking, speaking, and acting in search of perfection, or the elevated and exalted.
Idealism allows you to seek truth and discover reality at a profound level. It allows you to hope to live by such truth and actually do so. It even allows you to desire to publicize this truth and then do it.
Of course, lots of people hate your guts for holding on to your idealism. Everyone, really. And virulently, no less.
Still, idealism lets you think lofty thoughts, feel lofty feelings, dream lofty dreams, and achieve lofty goals. And if you play your cards right, and deftly negotiate the overwhelming evil of your unidealistic world, idealism lets you live a quite lofty life.
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