{"id":3623,"date":"2010-01-11T10:38:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T08:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=3623"},"modified":"2014-02-03T08:20:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T07:20:57","slug":"being-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2010\/01\/being-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Being young"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Youth is not a period of life. It&#8217;s a state of the spirit, it&#8217;s the product of a will. A quality of the imagination and an emotional intensity, it&#8217;s the victory of courage over shyness, of adventure over comfort.\u00a0One doesn&#8217;t grow older for having lived a number of years.\u00a0One gets older for having deserted an ideal.<!--more-->\u00a0Years will wrinkle the skin, but giving up an ideal will wrinkle the soul.\u00a0Worries, doubts, fears and lack of hope are enemies that slowly make us lean\u00a0towards the ground and we become dust before our death.\u00a0Young is the one who astounds and is fascinated.\u00a0The one who asks like an insatiable child: &#8220;what&#8217;s next?&#8221;\u00a0The one that defies circumstances and finds joy in the game of life.\u00a0One is as young as one&#8217;s faith. And as old as one&#8217;s doubts.\u00a0As young as one&#8217;s self-trust. As one&#8217;s hope. And as old as one&#8217;s dejection.\u00a0One remains young as long as one&#8217;s receptive.\u00a0Receptive to all that is beautiful and all that is big.\u00a0Receptive to the messages of nature, of man and of the infinite.\u00a0If sometime your heart is bitten by pessimism, or gnawed by cynicism,\u00a0may God have mercy upon your old soul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Marc Aurel (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanita.de\/feierliches\/feierliches_jungsein.htm\">cit.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 13.06.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth is not a period of life. It&#8217;s a state of the spirit, it&#8217;s the product of a will. A quality of the imagination and an emotional intensity, it&#8217;s the victory of courage over shyness, of adventure over comfort.\u00a0One doesn&#8217;t grow older for having lived a number of years.\u00a0One gets older for having deserted an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2010\/01\/being-young\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Being young<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2595],"class_list":["post-3623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","tag-one-is-as-young-as-ones-faith-and-as-old-as-ones-doubts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3623"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6709,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}