{"id":191,"date":"2009-03-02T11:44:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T11:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/191"},"modified":"2015-05-24T06:48:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T06:48:28","slug":"can-i-keep-a-young-heart-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/191","title":{"rendered":"Can I keep a young heart forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although it is really a sad truth, I must concede that I am growing up every day, every moment.&nbsp; Just like most of the people, I do not want to grow up and I only want to be a child forever.&nbsp; But I know it is impossible: I must grow up.&nbsp; So I just change my target: to keep a young heart forever.<br \/>&nbsp;&ldquo;Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.&nbsp; We grow old by deserting our ideals.&rdquo;&nbsp; This is true.&nbsp; Time may wrinkle our physical appearance, our body may become weaker and weaker, but our heart can always be young.&nbsp; Youth is not only a stage of life, but also a state of mind.&nbsp; In our society, we can find &lsquo;old&rsquo; teenagers easily.&nbsp; They just see their life as TV games.&nbsp; They give up easily, they desert their ideal easily, and some even choose to end their lives.&nbsp; What a pity!&nbsp; To avoid being one of them, we must have a young heart.<br \/>&nbsp;Life is a big adventure.&nbsp; Only people who believe that failure means the beginning can remain young.&nbsp; Life is a storybook.&nbsp; Only people who enjoy reading it and look forward to what&rsquo;s next can remain young.<br \/>&nbsp;To me, life is really exciting and I cannot wait to see what is going to happen.&nbsp; So, I believe I can keep a young heart forever.&nbsp; It is not difficult at all!&nbsp; What we need to do is to be happy and keep our childlike appetite as long as possible.<br \/>&nbsp;Can I keep a young heart forever?&nbsp; Of course yes.&nbsp; How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although it is really a sad truth, I must concede that I am growing up every day, every moment. Just like most of the people, I do not want to grow up and I only want to be a child forever. But I know it is impossible: I must grow up. So I just change my target: to keep a young heart forever.&ldquo;.........<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/191\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","schoolyear-7"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}