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看到那些有关生命、青春、人生感悟的文字,心中那根脆弱的琴弦常被触动。特别是,每当看到影视中英雄迟暮、美女白头的末路场景,都不免唏嘘。今天看了YC的“岁月·容颜 ”,小心弦也动了一下。
两年前,似乎都还一直感觉青春无限,体力无限。站在体育赛场上,和十七、八岁以及二、三十岁的球友们打球,从没觉得自己有什么不同和差距。开一样的玩笑,没处理好球也会被责备。尽管比赛中也常被称作老同志,但大家实际没感到代沟。因此,我一直认为,运动的速度和活动空间的广度决定人的心态。坚持锻炼,不受伤,和年轻人在一起,就会永葆青春。
但是,从去年,就是2012年,信念开始动摇了。直接的感受就是在运动场上,跑动速度已经开始感到迟缓,连续的、直接的身体对抗已经开始感到力不从心。从身体保护的角度出发,已经开始回避正面的身体接触,而更侧重跑位、配合和偷袭。更多的时候是作为铺垫者和传球者帮助年轻人完成最后的攻击。下面的两张照片就充分说明了这一点。更可气的是,一次坐公交,一位年轻的妈妈指挥自己的孩子给爷爷让座,那位爷爷居然是指我!一年一年的老生毕业,和学生之间的似哥似叔的模糊状态变得越来越不模糊。去年,随着90后新生进入研究生队伍,这种模糊几乎就完全不存在了。
2013年,岁月一如既往地逝去。我老了吗?回答是:NO,顶多是不年轻而已。青春不是年龄而是状态。非常同意这句话。有人说这是美国西点军校的校训之一,查查,但没有找到确切依据。无论如何,这句话是对的!在此转载美国作家 塞缪尔·厄尔曼(Samuel Ullman)的美文: “青春(YOUTH)”,予以佐证。
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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 freshness of the deep springs of life.
青春气贯长虹,勇锐盖过怯弱,进取压倒苟安。如此锐气,二十后生可有之,六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加,并非垂老,理想丢弃,方堕暮年。
Youth means a tempera-mental 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.
岁月悠悠,衰微只及肌肤;热忱抛却,颓废必致灵魂。忧烦,惶恐,丧失自信,定使心灵扭曲,意气如灰。
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust.
无论年届花甲,抑或二八芳龄,心中皆有生命之欢乐,奇迹之诱惑,孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线,只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号,你就青春永驻,风华常存。
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, 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 the Infinite, so long are you young.
一旦天线下降,锐气便被冰雪覆盖,玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生,即使年方二十,实已垂垂老矣;然则只要树起天线,捕捉乐观信号,你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。
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 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.
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