Youth!

Essay by ANH PHUONG

Not long ago, on social media platforms, there was a wave of changing profile pictures with the support of AI. After just one night of waking up, many people were surprised when everyone became a handsome man or a beautiful woman, both strange and familiar. Many guys and girls were disillusioned on their first date because the photos on Facebook were far different from reality. Nowadays, coffee shops always have beautifully decorated corners to serve the "check-in" to take photos to "offer to Facebook", virtual life is blooming everywhere.

Well, that is also normal, everyone wants to be younger and more beautiful, deep down in everyone's mind, the youth that has passed and is passing is truly admirable. "Youth" has gathered all the most beautiful things in life, in terms of physical appearance, personal aspirations, health... but youth cannot be like a shower. Because the rain and wind can come back next week, next month, next year, but youth is gone forever and will never return. Therefore, everyone tries to take care of their youth to make it last longer, a little longer. This is also normal.

Painting by artist THAI VINH THANH

Everyone has a youth, a time when hair is still jet black, eyes are still clear, looking at life simply in rosy colors. But then life is busy, hurried, the cycle of work, family, relationships makes people forget the ideals, dreams of youth. Then suddenly colliding with familiar images somewhere in the cheerful life today, I think to myself, I also had a fresh youth like that.

But there are still people who "spend their youth" to make life and people more beautiful with practical and useful work. Such silent contributions spread positive life energy. That is the beauty of labor of Quy Nhon City workers who went out to hang themselves on high branches right after storm No. 3 to help cut down fallen trees in Hanoi and Hai Phong not long ago; the beauty of kindness of bright smiles when volunteering to donate blood to save people, the beauty of hard work of workers in factories, or farmers with muddy hands and feet in the fields, at sea... That beauty is "blossoming and bearing fruit" from the sweat and persistent labor, contributing to spreading joy and happiness not only for themselves but also for everyone. They may be different in many ways, but what they have in common is that everyone often thinks, thinks deeply, thinks a lot about others. Think to help, share, support! This makes their youthful beauty more mellow and beautiful.

In an era where people can quickly quantify many invisible concepts, many states, feelings, and can materialize many relationships from big to small, there are still free ambulance rides; there are still rice portions, hanging pho bowls; there are still many young people who are at the age of playing and enthusiastically participating in community activities... If you regularly follow Binh Dinh newspaper, you will easily have information about those young people. Those young people help spread the miraculous energy that life always has many kind people, it helps people have more faith and motivation to rise up in life; truly no Al can replace them.

No matter what age you are, what profession you work in, or what your starting point is, as long as you always want to "bathe in a brilliant youth" with kind deeds, good thoughts, and spread good, positive values from the heart, then my dear friend, no one can bring you such a good youth!

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