<p class="ql-block">六十有余的我今天又长了一岁。穿过六十载的时光隧道，仿佛看到幼年和青年时的自己……</p> <p class="ql-block">感恩我的父母、感恩我的家人、感恩我生命里<span style="font-size: 18px;">遇到的</span>所有的人、感恩这个时代！</p> <p class="ql-block">今天想与您分享的是德裔美国人塞缪尔·厄尔曼写的散文——《年轻》</p> <p class="ql-block">年轻，并非人生旅程的一段时光，也并非粉颊红唇和体魄的矫健。</p> <p class="ql-block">它是心灵中的一种状态，是头脑中的一个意念，</p> <p class="ql-block">是理性思维中的创造力，是感情活动中的一股勃勃的朝气，是人生春色深处的一缕清新。</p> <p class="ql-block">年轻意味着甘愿放弃温馨浪漫的爱情去闯荡生活，</p> <p class="ql-block">意味着超越羞涩、怯懦和欲望的胆识与气质。</p> <p class="ql-block">而60岁的男人可能比20年的小伙子更多地拥有这种胆识与气质。</p> <p class="ql-block">没有人仅仅因为时光的流逝而变得衰老，</p> <p class="ql-block">只是随着理想的毁灭，人类才出现了老人。</p> <p class="ql-block">岁月可以在皮肤上留下皱纹，却无法为灵魂刻上一丝痕迹。</p> <p class="ql-block">忧虑、恐惧、缺乏自信才使人佝搂于时间尘埃之中。</p> <p class="ql-block">无论是60岁还是16岁，每个人都会被未来所吸引，</p> <p class="ql-block">都会对人生竞争中的欢乐怀着孩子般无穷无尽的渴望。</p> <p class="ql-block">在你我心灵的深处，同样有一个无线电台，</p> <p class="ql-block">只要它不停地从人群中，从无限的中接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信息，</p> <p class="ql-block">你我就就永远年轻。</p> <p class="ql-block">一旦这无线电台坍塌，你的心便会被玩世不恭和悲观失望的寒冷酷雪所覆盖，你便衰老了— —即使你只有20岁。</p> <p class="ql-block">但如果这无线电台始终矗立在你心中，</p> <p class="ql-block">捕捉着每个乐观向上的电波，</p> <p class="ql-block">你便有希望超过年轻的80岁。</p> <p class="ql-block">所以只要勇于有梦，</p> <p class="ql-block">敢于追梦，</p> <p class="ql-block">勤于圆梦，</p> <p class="ql-block">我们就永远年轻！</p> <p class="ql-block">千万不要动不动就说自己老了，</p> <p class="ql-block">错误引导自己！</p> <p class="ql-block">年轻就是力量！</p> <p class="ql-block">有梦就有未来！</p> <p class="ql-block">奔跑吧！</p> <p class="ql-block">英文版的《年轻》</p><p class="ql-block">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 refreshness of the deep springs of life.</p> <p class="ql-block">Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, </p> <p class="ql-block">For adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. </p> <p class="ql-block">Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.</p> <p class="ql-block">Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinklesthe soul</p> <p class="ql-block">Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.</p> <p class="ql-block">Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder.</p> <p class="ql-block">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;</p> <p class="ql-block">so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer,</p> <p class="ql-block">courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.</p> <p class="ql-block">When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism.</p> <p class="ql-block">for adventure over the love of ease.. </p> <p class="ql-block">This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty.</p> <p class="ql-block">then you are grown old,</p> <p class="ql-block">even at twenty,</p> <p class="ql-block">but as long as your aerials are up,</p> <p class="ql-block">to catch the waves of optimism,</p> <p class="ql-block">there is hope you may die young at eighty.</p> <p class="ql-block">人物经历</p><p class="ql-block">塞缪尔·厄尔曼(1840.4.13-1924.3.21)，美国作家，1840年生于德国，儿时随家人移居美利坚，参加过南北战争，之后定居伯明翰，经营五金杂货，年逾70开始写作。 他的散文《青春》因麦克阿瑟将军的喜爱而出名，著作有散文《青春》等。</p>