This post is designed to make you feel younger and if you don’t feel younger after reading this I promise to refund every penny you paid to enter this lunatic asylum.
What is eternal youth and how do we attain it? This thought brings to mind Ponce De Leon and his futile search for the fountain of youth. This poor fool wandered all over Florida hoping he’d find this all elusive thing. A billion dollar industry is based on it. In our youth obsessed culture many are looking for this very thing; this endless and eternal youth. Well my friends I know the secret and I will share it with you now. You will be astonished and amazed to hear that just like Dorothy and her Ruby Slippers, you have had the power to go home all along.
Just what does make one young? How does one do it? For me with each passing birthday I get younger and younger. So much so I will need a babysitter soon (or at least a keeper) and so what if there are enough candles on my birthday cake to start a 5 alarm fire? It’s chocolate dammit!
I have found that youth isn’t on the outside..it’s on the inside. Youth is the way we feel and the older we get the more important it is to be young.
The beauty that lives inside of you radiates to the outside. Damn the lines under your eyes, they are just laughter signs. And laughter is a key ingredient in this potent elixir I am brewing today.
It is the joy of living that makes us young my friends. It is that intangible something that is born in our hearts and lives inside our souls. Youth cannot be found in a bottle or a jar of face cream. Youth is the happiness we derive out of being alive.
Youth walks barefoot in the dewy morning grass. It is whimsy and breathless awe. It is hope and dreams and fanciful schemes. Youth is an ice cream cone with two scoops. It is fun and laughter. It is sweet music and tasty treats. It is cozy friendship and drinking hot tea by the fire on a cold winter’s night. Youth is tinged with the green of trees and colorful leaves. It is a red rose with soft petals. Youth is anticipation and excitement and trying new things. Youth is looking forward to tomorrow. It is the companionship of a beloved pet. It is kindness and warmth. Youth is a boisterous red balloon. It is sunshine and a newly moved lawn. It is a tall glass of lemonade that packs a punch. Youth is a wide and open smile. It is making silly faces in the mirror. Youth is allowing ourselves to be ourselves.
Youth is chocolate and kittens and a good book. Youth is holding hands under the pale moonlight. It is hugs and tender kisses. Youth is watching butterflies flutter by and laughing at life’s ironies. Youth is love; love for the sake of itself…love that extends out to the whole world. Youth is forever!
It is that simple. It is pure and it is yours for the small price of just believing in it.
Forget what these naysayers say; youth is not wasted on the young. Go forth my young friends. Enjoy it!
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Strawberryindigo.
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka
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this post makes me smile, your right it is It is the intangible something that is born in our hearts and lives inside our souls. great post my friend…
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Hello Will of Heart: I am so glad you liked it! This post was inspired by a good friend of mine telling me he was old–I begged to differ and this post was born. 🙂
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Couldn’t have said it better myself! 😉
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Thanks Gunta! I had a lot of fun writing it! 😀
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I stopped getting older at the age of 33… 😀 I do feel younger at heart though. 😉
No, seriously you are so right – loved this cheerful post again which could only possibly have been written by a young and lovely person! (PS I’m glad chocolate was mentioned… 😉 )
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Hey Cathy, well you look 33. And thanks about the young and lovely remark. That makes my day! 😀 I’m glad you like the chocolate mention. I should really find a way to fit chocolate into every post. 😉
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I’m getting younger everyday too soon I’ll need diapers… Weird but in someways this statement is true? I love your words. Well placed and full of subtle comedy.
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Hey Juan, drooling too? haha…I suppose one day if we are lucky we will all revert back to our days of infancy…or should I say infirmary? Thanks for the comment. I appreciate you showing up 🙂
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very important sentence here. Youth is on the inside. I feel this way some days. Part of me wants to go swing, play tag, laugh til I drop, but now, life is too serious, but in time I will find my way back to my youth
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You will find your way back to youth Terry. It is an admirable thing you are doing my friend.
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Age is just a number of birthdays for each other, pure statistics
– what’s going on between the ears is not age-related statistics… 😉
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I agree dear Drake and taking what you said into consideration…I would say that I am 17… 😉
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Such a lovely teenager… 😉
I don’t believe age as something wonder miracle – we human loves statistics maybe for the sake of statistics – I will rather ask young or old “What have life learned you”… “hehehe”
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Thanks Drake! 🙂
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