轟動全球的短文:塞繆爾·厄爾曼:《年輕》
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德裔美籍人塞繆爾·厄爾曼70多年前寫的一篇只有四百多字的短文,首次在美國發(fā)表的時候,引起全美國轟動效應(yīng),成千上萬的讀者把它抄下來當(dāng)作座右銘收藏,許多中老年人把它作為安排后半生的精神支柱。美國的麥克阿瑟將軍在指揮整個太平洋戰(zhàn)爭期間,辦公桌上始終擺著裝有短文《年輕》復(fù)印件的鏡框,文中的許多的詞句常被他在談話或開會作報告時引用。后來此文傳到日本,文章的觀點成為許多日本人生活哲學(xué)的基礎(chǔ)。松下公司的創(chuàng)始人松下幸之助說:“多年來,《年輕》始終是我的座右銘。”
英文全文如下:
Youth
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, vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep spring of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exits in a man of 60, more than a boy of 20.nobody grows merely by the number of years; we grow old by deserting our ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust1 bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike 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 infinite, so long as you are young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with the snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. It is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep spring of life. These are what I have and what we have at this period of life. So, I'm still young, yes, definitely ! Come on my fellow friends, show your energy and passion to this god damn world ! Let the universe hear our voice, see our cheek, hug our enthusiasm and witness our maturity. We're going to create a brand new future !