用奔跑，留住青春的内核 / 开普饭

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我见过非常多的跑者，他们活得简单直接，像个无忧无虑的孩子。至少，在跑步的时候是这样。

一款五四青年节，让我这快40岁的人感到了一丝丝错愕，过，还是不过？虽说装嫩卖萌已经成为网络时代的必要技能，但电脑旁、键盘前、眼镜片后面的皱纹褶子，依然残酷而固执地对你诉说着时光流淌过的痕迹。今天的北京，高楼向远望，一片雾霾。

青春是什么？青春在自然规律上来说是一段岁月，但青春岁月赋予年轻人的内核，却是一种精神状态。好奇，果敢，不安于现状，以及无限可能的行动力，打破平淡，安以动之徐生。青春是嫩芽，拥有冲破一切的力量，青春是海贼王，向着梦想不断成长的战斗……

五四青年卖萌节，不妨回顾一首犹太诗人赛缪尔·厄尔曼的美文《青春》，让今天的自己，成为一位青春的朗读者。

YOUTH

Samuel Ullman

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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网上比较普遍的译本：

《青春》

赛缪尔·厄尔曼

青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。

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。

无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，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。

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。