A Small Poem from America is Very Inspiring

Aug. 5, 2025, 5:33 p.m. Essays

New York time is 3 hours ahead of California,But California time doesn't slow down.

Someone graduated at the age of 22, but waited 5 years before securing a good job!

Someone became a CEO at 25, and died at 50.

While another became a CEO at 50, and lived to 90 years.

Someone is still single, while someone else got married.

Obama retires at 55, but Trump starts at 70.

Absolutely everyone in this world works based on their Time Zone.

People around you might seem to go ahead of you, some might seem to be behind you.

But everyone is running their own RACE, in their own TIME.

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Don't envy them or mock them.

They are in their TIME ZONE, and you are in yours!

Life is about waiting for the right moment to act.

So, RELAX.

You're not LATE.

You're not EARLY.

You are very much ON TIME, and in your TIME ZONE Destiny set up for you.

Samuel Earman, a German-American, wrote a short article over 70 years ago that caused a sensation in America when it was first published, and was copied and collected by thousands of readers as a motto. Many older people used it as a spiritual pillar to arrange their second half of their lives.

General MacArthur's desk during the entire Pacific War always had a framed copy of 'Young' on it, and many of the words and sentences in the article were often quoted by him in conversations or meetings.

'Young'

Samuel Earman

Young is not a period of time on the journey of life, nor is it rosy cheeks and strong physique.

It is a state of mind, a thought in the brain, the creative potential in rational thinking, the vigorous spirit in emotional activity, and a spring breeze in the deepest beauty of life.

Young means to give up romantic love to explore life, it means courage and temperament beyond shyness, timidity and desire.

A 60-year-old man might have more of this courage and temperament than a 20-year-old.

People don't become old just because of the passage of time, but only when their ideals are destroyed.

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Time can leave wrinkles on the skin, but cannot carve a trace on the soul. Worry, fear, and lack of confidence make people stooped in the dust of time.

Whether you are 60 or 16 years old, everyone is attracted to the future, and has an endless desire for joy in the competition of life.

Deep in our hearts, there is also a radio station. As long as it continues to receive information about beauty, hope, joy, courage and strength from the crowd and from endless time, I will always be young.

Once this radio station collapses, your heart will be covered by the cold and bleak snow of cynicism and disappointment, and you will age – even if you are only 20 years old.

But if this radio station always stands in your heart, catching every optimistic wave, you have hope to exceed the young 80 years.

So long as you dare to have dreams, dare to pursue dreams, and diligently fulfill your dreams, we will always be young!

Don't move just say you are old, it misguides you! Young is strength, there is a future if you have a dream!

Don’t envy them or mock them.

They are in their TIME ZONE, and you are in yours!

Life is about waiting for the right

moment to act.