there we were in a classroom in the high school building for the first time and suddenly , evinced on that day and the impression reinforced and solidified from all subsequent days , i had become an anathema , an abhorrent stranger whom he refused to speak with in his new company of friends who together scoffed at my occasional intrusiveness in accosting him ( aristotle of course stating that youth is noted for its varied pleasures and the variegated friends who are agents of those pleasures115 , and thus implyingor this my interpretation of itthat in adolescence ones understanding of his opinions , values , and talents , is shaped largely by the intensity of pleasures ; but had i known this volatility , it would not have done me much good as the personal affront , especially sudden changes of deportment without explanation or farewell , hurts at the time it happens immeasurably ) .