青春是什么？什么样的生活才算得上是青春呢？
席慕容说：所有结局都已写好/所有的泪水也都已启程/却忽然忘了是怎样的一个开始/在那个古老的不再回来的夏日/无论我如何地去追索/年轻的你只如云影掠过/而你微笑的面容极浅极浅/逐渐隐没在日落后的群岚。
遂翻开那发黄的扉页/命运将它装订的极为拙劣/含着泪我一读在读/却不得不承认/青春是一本太仓促的书。
塞缪尔·厄尔曼说：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。
原文：《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.
最近一直在思考关于青春的问题，想想这些年自己所过的生活，心里不禁产生总总伤痛，属于我青春的书是那本呢？我青春天线的高度又在哪呢？静静回想自己已逝去的四年大学生活和现在已经过去大半年的研究生生活，这些日子我都干嘛去了？我做了什么事出来了？印象最深刻的还是叔叔的唠叨，电话上违心跟父母说我有在好好读书。
青春应属八九点的太阳，激情四射，充满活力的阳光吧！可想想自己呢？整天跟个老头子一样死气沉沉的，做着八九十岁老人都能做的事情。想想自己能做什么呢？个人文化素养“琴棋书画”，没有一样琴是能弹的，棋也每一样是精通的，字写得很多自己都看不懂，画就更不用说了。球类呢？除了能拍几下羽毛球，其他的任何球类都不会。运动除了跑步外，什么都不会。也不追星，娱乐界也都不清楚。。。自己的专业也是一塌糊涂，真搞不明白自己的青春都干什么去了。
呵呵！这样或者是不是比死去还难受。。。
