Comments on: Manvotional: “Youth” by Samuel Ullman

By: Rohit Ramachandran

Rohit Ramachandran — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:57:41 +0000

Beautiful passage. Perfectly agreeable. By these standards, I’m considerably older than my grandfather.

By: winston g. wright

winston g. wright — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:52:23 +0000

I enjoyed the poem Great. I have always said that: “you should live when you are alive,so that you may be dead when you die: you should not be a living dead all your life” and also, I have often said:
“I was born an optimist…. and I think I am going to die an optimist…
which means that I am going to be an optimist…ALL my life”

That being so I am always going to be :yuong at heart”

Winston G.

By: James Withey

James Withey — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:41:07 +0000

If I could be half the man my father was It would be great. He was always there for me and tried his best at everything and was always learning until he went on the greatest adventure when he went to meet God.

By: Hearing Aids

Hearing Aids — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:49:44 +0000

I was told once the day you stop acquiring stories and just start telling them is the day that you’ve grown old. Love the sentiment, and the poem.

By: Sir Lancelot

Sir Lancelot — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:14:04 +0000

My own mother is the youngest person I know.

By: Wes Roberts

Wes Roberts — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:40:39 +0000

…at the wildoldeman age of 67, I concur
…as posted on my blog while on a trip to the northwest
http://wesroberts.typepad.com/wes/2009/11/yupme-too.html

By: chontz

chontz — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:58:05 +0000

thanks for the post…immediately reminds me of my grandfather who had a great military career as a doctor and served in ww2 still never lost his sense of curiosity and wonder. he always listened to me, what a thrill it was for me as a kid to teach him something.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:09:38 +0000

I love that last line: “may you die young at 80!” I have seen this in so many old people, and boy is it true. Their enthusiasm in their upper years stands in stark contrast to so many jaded teenagers of today who have experienced it all and who feel no wonder…

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:51:36 +0000

Thanks for posting this. Today is my 44th birthday, and this made for a great read first thing in the a.m.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:19:19 +0000

Absolutely, I agree 100%.

I just turned 50, and feel like I’m 30 (and some days 17).
It’s all an adventure, get off your ass, get out and live, welcome the fears, see where they come from and grow damnit!!

I wasn’t always like this, it took a divorce at 47 and a bunch of personal growth work to recognize what I have and jump back on the adventure train.

If I can do it, so can you.

B-)