Youth, a cherished period in one's life, is often encapsulated in words by scholars and poets. As early as the last century, Hiller, the famous German poet once said that the most important thing in one's life is to be loyal to his dreams during his youth. The author of this elegant piece of the article clearly explains to us that youth is not simply judged by how old you are, but instead by your mood and by your attitude towards life.
             At the beginning of the article, the author points out the traditional view of youth: rosy cheeks, red lips, and supple knees. It is true that all these exist when you are young but in the end, they will definitely disappear with the age passing. However, in the following, the author quickly gives us a sharp contrast towards this kind of traditional view by pointing out that youth is not a time of life but a state of mind, a matter of the will, a quality of imagination, a vigor of the emotions, the freshness of the deep springs of life. With the parallelism, the author shows us his view towards youth and that is what youth really is.
             Then, the author tells us the most important thing in youth, without which one will feel old though it is likely that he is only 20, physically considered young. A temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, the appetite for adventure over the love of ease, the spirit of chasing his dream and never giving up, all these are regarded as the symptoms of youth. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years; they just grow old by deserting their ideals and then lose the courage and spirit to face the never-stop-changing world.
             Confidence, the indispensable factor in life, also plays a very important and positive role in one's course of keeping young. As the old Chinese saying goes, confidence is the source of all one's power. Without it, one may be afraid of any failure and therefore fail to make any try and gradually dies with pities and regrets when looks back ...