-blueskiies-
Lately, I've become somewhat in love with capturing the feeling of what I have finally been able to put into words partly. Shining youth. Even these words don't really do it justice.
Other languages have words that can encompass what I mean by this. For example, Komorebi (木漏れ日). This Japanese word describes the sunlight as it sparkles through the trees. Cheongchun (청춘) is Korean for youth or "the springtime of life".
For me, the feeling of youth is both of these things. But also, like shadows and light dapple the ground when there is komorebi, so youth is scattered with happy and sorrowful moments. It is the soft splashes of calm waves on a sandy beach. It is the sweetness of popsicles under a warm blue sky, the kind you can split in two. It is the soft green of the trees and the soft hum of a fan left on. Youth is like the vernal spring and the reminiscence of summer.
I want to capture this feeling and keep it so I can hold on to it as long as I can.
What would you consider to be youth, in its purest definition?
Henneth-Annun
@-blueskiies- I love this. I think of youth as almost a semblance that you have so much life ahead of you.....you have so many chances to stop what you're doing that harms you and make something beautiful of your life instead. It makes me think of second chances, and hope. Often hope for a future that is sweeter and higher than the hate and pain of past generations. But it also makes so many things so much sadder too......terrible tragedies and accidents, shootings, everything hurts more when a life that has so much future ahead of them is ruined or taken. The shooter themselves and the people they take from the world. It hurts so much.....but I suppose with every spring there can be renewed hope, right? Every winter brings a guest of fresh life and courage. (at least to me, winter is a hopeful thing). I can't put any definition into words. For my part your post cheers me. Because most of what my eyes can see is the pain and grief and evils of youth. I like being reminded there can be beauty and wonder and good there too.
