Youth

I found a article from the web, and hope that it may cheer you (whoever read ths) up…..
I only have a chance to translate part of it….

Youth　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　原文作者: Samuel Ullman
The article is written by the author when he was about 70 years old.


http://www.prmvr.otsu.shiga.jp/library/master/SamuelUllman/Youth.html
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind;
年青不是年少之時光,而是一種心態。

it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees;
世人皆以紅顏、朱唇、身段柔為年青

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.
我以意志、想像力、熱情為依歸。以源頭活水,為我生命之泉

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.
經年累月童顏衰,放棄理想教人老。

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
年老色衰非我慮,失去熱忱是我憂。

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.