Youth...

Youth is not a time of life

It is a state of mind,
is a demonstration of the will.
A quality of imagination,
the vigor of the emotions,
predominance of courage over timidity;
the desire for adventure,
in contrast to the desire for convenience.

Nobody is old for only having lived
a number of years.
Aging is only when
ideals are abandoned.
Years wrinkle the skin;
renounce the ideals shrinks the soul.

The concern, doubt, lack of confidence,
fear and despair ... are factors
that after long years, they bow their heads
and route the spirit into the sunset.

That you're 70 or 16, there is always
in every human heart, the love of the marvelous,
the sweet admiration for the stars,
and for all that radiate light, other than shares
or thoughts, the intrepid challenge
of events, the unfailing
and infant appetite:
What's Next?

You are as young as your faith,
as old as your fear;
as young as your hope,
as old as your despair.

While your heart receives messages
beauty, joy, courage,
magnificence and power, land,
of men, and the infinite, you are young.

When all the springs have loosened
and all corners of the heart are covered
snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism,
then, and only then,
you've got really old,
and, currently,
God have mercy on your soul.