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Random thoughts at this spring night
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It’s spring again. I love this season, because it always makes me feel cheerful and delighted to see the sprout of the willows and the green grass, which showcase the arrival of a brand-new year and encourage me to cherish the time and take actions.
After I read my blogs about learning swimming, those days once again appeared in my mind. I was moved by that part of me---earnest, full of curiosity, resolute and passionate. However, it seems I’m heading to the opposite direction of it nowadays.
Hopefully, the old letters help me figure out what I should focus on at present. Although I need to work during the day, I also need to spare time to try new things, to keep learning, to maintain my curiosity and more importantly, stay enthusiastic.
(It seems my English really get a little worse, and I feel I can not express myself freely and make myself understood as before. I will write more and practice more here in the following days. )
Share one article with my beloved friends here and let’s fight for each brand-new day^ ^
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 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 60 more than a boy of 20. 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 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for 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, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.
When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with 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.
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- Reply linda@crab
- "see the sprout of the willows and the green grass, which showcase the arrival of a brand-new year and encourage me to cherish the time and take actions." u are so passionate. as for me, every morning the sun rises erlier than before, sometimes i thought it was so late that i has to get up to work. but no! just 6:00. that's one diffirence compared with passing days. hehe!
then ,warm tempreture and warm wind, nice sunshine touch my body, feel so good! haha!!!
even the thought of that i don't want to get into room for enjoying this great spring sunshine. could i say: this will make me be lazy.hehe!
but you can be active. so how powerfull passionate you have. 
- Reply bluephoebe
- focus on the present, i like that
- Reply Fionahere
- linda@crab: "see the sprout of the willows and the green grass, which showcase the arrival of a brand-new year and encourage me to cherish the time and takeYou are right. I also enjoy the spring morning sunshine a lot. It is so refreshing. And it even becomes the very reason for me to get up early in the morning. Otherwise, I will be very reluctant to drag myself out of the warm bed.
- Reply linda@crab
- Fionahere: You are right. I also enjoy the spring morning sunshine a lot. It is so refreshing. And it even becomes the very reason for me to get up early in thepretty girl
- Reply woods
- Hi~Fio!I still memorize what you once said here~"Never slow down,never look back,live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness".Apparently now we both keep it in mind.
- Reply Fionahere
- woods: Hi~Fio!I still memorize what you once said here~"Never slow down,never look back,live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity andHoho, right~ Keep it in mind and do the same as well
- Reply woods
- Fionahere: Hoho, right~ Keep it in mindYeah,do the same as well,that's the hard part to persist.and do the same as well
- Reply Fionahere
- Edelweiss: I do love this article.Thank you. Long time no see. It's really exciting to see your comments here.
- Reply Edelweiss
- Fionahere: Thank you. Long time no see. It's really exciting to see your comments here.Indeed. How are you?
- Reply Edelweiss
- Fionahere: Thank you. Long time no see. It's really exciting to see your comments here.Indeed. How does life treat you these days?
- Reply Fionahere
- Edelweiss: Indeed. How does life treat you these days?A new semester is coming, but i don't think i'm well-prepared. Hope i can get used to the life at school quickly~
- Reply Edelweiss
- Fionahere: A new semester is coming, but i don't think i'm well-prepared. Hope i can get used to the life at school quickly~It's the same with me. Wish you all the best.
- Reply bluephoebe
- for me, you are doing just fine with your English. I love Youth, even I might don't have much left---on the surface, inside, I could still keep a young and curious spirit
- Reply Fionahere
- bluephoebe: for me, you are doing just fine with your English. I love Youth, even I might don't have much left---on the surface, inside, I could still keep a younStay young and stay enthusiasm.
- Reply louislaolu
- You said everything I want to say about the spring. Besides, your English is fluent and expressive, at least to me. People are still leaving comments on a blog written a year ago is proof that they love your English.
