We often hear people pining for their younger days as if they represent a golden time of life that has passed. While observing children, it is certainly easy to envy how they seem to be overflowing with energy. Teens and young adults are often also full of ideas about changing the world. Our younger years were a time when we might have had certain physical advantages that were instantly accessed—without aches and pains. In our younger days, we likely had certain mental advantages too; for most of us, our earlier years didn’t include any stress about work or worries about paying rent and bills. If we compared our life today to the life of a child or teen (and comparing is usually not a great idea), one might think our days of youth have gone for good.
But the real thing we’re observing—or maybe pining for—when we contemplate “youth” is the energy to explore.
Youthfulness is not merely a physical state. We all know plenty of teens and even some in their 20s who act pretty stodgy—because they either think they know it all or they are wasting their ability to move by sitting around, hour after hour, texting and playing video games.
Youth—in my humble opinion—is a state of mind that can be owned by anyone at any age. Youth is the urge to explore every curious idea that comes to mind; the desire to learn anything and everything we can about whatever we want to know to the fullest. With this definition, yes, I do believe that youth—the desire for, and energy put toward, continual learning—is the pinnacle of life. So how are you enjoying your youth?
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