Okay so i have to analyse a short story using techniques and explain how they give meaning. Only problem is that i missed the lesson where we learned how to do that so im stuck and cannot ask my teacher because she is away and i have no way of learning. It is now the weekend and i have to hand this in and i have no clue what im doing! can someone help me!! this is the story, i got it of the Humans of New York site.

“I wish I’d partied a little less. People always say ‘be true to yourself.’ But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.”