According to the custom, a new year is full of hopes to everybody, but I want to say something sad, I am afraid of coming to the end of the year.
      I’m afraid of the end of the year, it makes me realize that I am growing old. We are shocked when think of death, and we know that’s impossible we will be alive forever, so we know the importance of cherishing our time. But we always don’t mind wasting one hour or one day, forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours. When a new year is coming, I realize one year of my life has almost lost.
      I remember clearly that a great psychologist said, most men are “old fogies at twenty-five years”. He was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. They have accumulated the little stock of prejudices that they call their “principles”, and closed their minds to all new ideas, they have ceased to grow, no matter how old he is, he begins to be old.
       Hearing what I’ve said, maybe you are being upset now. never mind, a really great person never grows old. Obviously, we still keep on studying now. As long as we look back on every year we’ll say, “I grew”, so we are still young, no matter how old we are.
       Remember, the minute you say to yourself, “I know all that I need to know”, the minute you cease to grow, you are really old, the age may be twenty-five or seventy-five, it makes no difference. So let’s looking forward to the new year cheerfully,we’ll just be growing, not be old.

i am younger than you,i have the same feeling.but i want to cease to grow,as you said ,maybe i am really old.

Always i think the age is especially important for the woman.
But now, i think it is the same important for the man.
In fact, the mentality is the most important.
Maybe we are old but we could keep young mentality for ever.

Merry Christmas!