Blog 8:We are young

We are young

  When talking about young, how is young? I think differernt people will have different opinion. Copared with our parents, not matter how old are we, we are still young. Compared with the nature, human beings are always young. Compared with the sun, the earth is young. Compared with galaxy, the sun is young. Compared with universe, the galaxy is also young. Everything and everyone can be young, so how can we identify young. For human beings, we can define youth by age. Maybe, 14 years old is young, maybe 18, maybe 20, even 30, 40.

 

  However, I think “Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.” For all human beings, without a young and energetic mind, no matter how young in physical they are, there is no difference between them and geezers without any vitality. Thus, to keep young, the first thing what we need to do is keeping our hearts young and holding a positive attitude. At the same time, cherishing our precious time should not be neglected either. We should not be addicted to computer games and entertainments. On the contrary, we need pay more attention to academic aspects. Opportunities favor the prepared mind. Thus, we need enough preparations to grasp opportunities and achieve our goals.

  

  To be young does not mean naive. On the contrary, I think it is sagacious. Nobady can be eternal, but change our attitude, we can always be young, isn't it? I think no matter when, we are young.

  Follwing is a poem introduced by Xiangyu. Thanks for is introduction

 

YOUTH POEM

By: Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind,

it is a temper of the will,

a quality of the imagination,

a vigor of the emotions,

a predominance of courage over timidity,

of the appetite for adventure over love of ease.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years.

People grow old only by deserting their ideals.

Years wrinkle the skin,

but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Worry, doubt, self-distrust,

fear and despair - these are the long,

long years that bow the head and

urn the growing spirit back to dust.

Whether they are sixteen or seventy,

there is in every being's heart

the love of wonder,

the sweet amazement at the stars

and star like things and thoughts,

the undaunted challenge of events,

the unfailing childlike appetite

for what is to come next,

and the joy and the game of life.

You are as young as your faith,

as old as your doubt;

as young as your self-confidence,

as old as your fear,

as young as your hope,

as old as your despair.

When the wires are all down

and all the innermost core of your heart

is covered with the snows of pessimism

and the ice of cynicism,

then you are grown old indeed.

But so long as your heart receives messages

of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur

and power from the earth,

from man and from the Infinite,

so long you are young.