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【Youth (1918)】

Samuel Ullman (1840—1924)

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease.  This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty.  Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.  We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.  Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living.  In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

【注】“以上帝之名·力量”(1840生—1924卒)创作的散文《青春》有不少中译版本，但我最喜欢的还是下面的中心思想，对于走出青春的过来人，记忆中的青春总比亲身经历的青春还要栩栩如生。

“青春不是年华，而是心境，岁月是这日夜交替的时光流转，带走了悲与喜，留下了青春独有的姿态。于是，对这青春岁月，我们便多了份感恩，生活不再重复着单调的色彩，发现自己竟被幸福包裹的如此严实，有时我们会被现实冷落的，飘荡的心无所寄托，何不将它附于纸上，青春如诗的年华，笔端流淌的墨，写不出醉人的美，独有我心静品其香。青春的年华固为绚烂，心境的青春依旧精彩，青春意味着勇气多于怯懦，意味着喜欢冒险而讨厌安逸，更意味着青春的日子美伦美焕。即使青春的年华流逝，但我们心境的青春不能老去。”

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7^th Grader @ the 51^st Piano Recital Led by Teacher Solaiman @ Jacobs Music, PA

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