九月十四日，台风“梅花”登陆的前几个小时，参加了团总支和党总支联合举办的活动——对话青春。
活动在一家茶室举行，大致分了两个部分。
第一部分是本届青年科技论文比赛的颁奖，对获得总院论文比赛一二三等奖的年轻员工进行了表彰。并选了三位进行上台宣讲，由总工进行点评。
第二部分是圆桌对话，年轻员工分为了八桌，每桌安排了一位总工或者院领导，围绕主题进行畅聊。
主题分为：理想、爱情、责任、蜕变、收获、安家、信念和角色。
我在”信念“小组，大家谈的更多的是新形势下的困惑和迷茫。
但是最后，他们还是有着坚定的信念——设计，让城市更美好。
所以在最后的总结中，我改了一下《牧羊少年的奇幻之旅》中的名句，送给年轻的朋友们：
只要坚持自己的信念，全世界都会给你让路。
昨晚参加同学婚礼晏，又有感慨：人生途中，处处皆有青春。
今天回想对话活动，想到了萨缪尔·乌尔曼的那篇经典散文《Youth》，索性从网上找来中英文对照版，与大家共勉。
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的感情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust.
岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.
无论年届花甲，抑或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.
一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。
