Introductory Message
This Saturday is May 4 - the National Youth Day of China. This holiday was established by the Chinese government in December 1949 to honor the memory of the May Fourth Movement of 1919 and to memorialise the student protests against the government’s weak response to the Treaty of Versailles. This week, by reflecting on the concept of youth, we are going to preserve and develop the spirit of democracy and patriotism. What age is considered the end of youth? Who's your favourite Chinese youngster? Do you agree with Samuel Ullman's definition of youth? Let's start with 'when I was young'...
各位好，明天是青年节，也是五四运动100周年纪念，那就让我们应景地讨论一下“青春”这件事吧。几岁算是年轻？谁是你最喜欢的中国好青年？Samuel Ullman在《青春》一诗中说青春不是生命中的某一时段，而是一种心理状态（Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind），你是否同意他的观点。明天，我们就从“我年轻的时候…”聊起。.
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 temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease.
This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty.
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 sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, 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;
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 twenty,
but as long as your aerials are up,
to catch the waves of optimism,
there is hope you may die young at eighty.
Date: 04/05/2019 19:30-21:00
Attendees: 11 Nanxian, Janny, Tony, Shadow, Michael, Michelle, Joan, Cindy, Liala, Jing Chen, Vincent(Visa)
Archive files: 2 Photos, 1 Signin Form
Minutes taken by Janny
