Guo Moruo once said: "There is nothing more precious than youth in the world, but youth is also the easiest to die. The most precious thing is not cherished, but the most perishable thing is promoting its disappearance. It is a great man who can stay young forever. "
Youth is precious. So, what should precious youth look like?
Youth is perishable. However, what era does perishable youth belong to?
The face of youth
Not long ago, I attended an open class on youth at Fudan University. In class, Professor Chen Guo of Fudan University described the youth as follows: "Young people are ignorant and naive, and they have unlimited ambitions but no strength to support them. The reason why so many people like, praise and praise youth is because youth is a full seed, an infinitely rich and full seed containing thousands of possibilities. Youth represents tomorrow and youth represents the future. "
Youth is unknown and uncertain. Because of the unknown uncertainty, youth is full of infinite curiosity about the world, youth is full of longing for beauty, youth is full of expectation for the future, and youth is full of love for life.
Yu Zeng, the founder of New Oriental, said in his speech: Young people should have dreams, struggle bravely and keep growing.
Therefore, youth should be a state, a state of mind: unwilling to be mediocre, full of vitality, eager for knowledge, eager for the future, and loving life.
Youth times
Many people say that youth is fleeting, many people complain that youth is short, and many people regret that youth is no longer there. So what time period does youth refer to? Like everyone else, I have always had a tacit understanding: youth refers to a person's adolescence.
However, it was not until I saw an inspirational video of Deshun Wang that my understanding of youth completely changed. In the video, Deshun Wang said: "24 years old, I am a drama actor; I started learning English at the age of 44; At the age of forty-nine, he created a pantomime and became an old North drifter in Beijing. He started from scratch without a house or a car. At the age of fifty, I entered the gym and started to work out. At the age of 57, I stepped onto the stage again and created the only art form in the world, which is called living sculpture. At the age of seventy, I began to consciously practice abdominal muscles; Seventy-nine years old, I was walking on the runway; I am eighty years old, and I still have dreams and pursuits. "
When I saw Grandpa Deshun Wang's youthful and energetic state at the age of 80, I suddenly woke up. It turns out that youth can also be like this. It turns out that youth can also be full of vitality in nearly a hundred years.
I still remember that the German writer samuel ullmann wrote an article called Youth, in which one paragraph said, "No matter how old you are, whether you are in your twenties or eighties, you have the joy of life, the lure of miracles and childlike innocence. In the center of everyone's heart there is an antenna, so long as you receive messages of beauty, hope, joy, courage and strength from the sky, you will remain young forever. "
Yes, whether you are over 60 or 28, as long as your heart is full of vitality, you can still stay young forever.
Therefore, youth has nothing to do with age. Youth refers to a state. Some people lose hope for life in their teens and have no idea about the future. Their youth is gone. Some people still love life when they are 80 or 90 years old, full of strength in their hearts and full of expectations for the future. Their youth is still there.