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It's really no wonder we are obsessed with staying young. It seems to me that youth is equated with beauty, vitality and power, whereas old age is synonymous with the loss of such qualities. The general consensus is that we hit a certain age and it is all down hill from there. Or that there is a time we call the ‘prime of our lives’ and before and after our ‘prime’ it is all just struggle and suffering. So what’s this all about? When did we collectively decide to forget that we actually get better with age? 我们对于保持青春如此地痴迷，这真的不足为奇。我们对于衰老的社会态度未必就是值得称道的。在我看来，似乎年轻就等同于美丽、活力和力量，反之年老就意味着丧失了这些特性。人们的普遍共识是，我们到了某一年龄，从此之后就开始走下坡路了。或者有那么一段时期我们称之为“人生的黄金时期”，在“黄金时期”前后的时间里都是挣扎与痛苦。那么这是怎么一回事儿？是在什么时候我们忘了这样一个事实：随着年龄的增长我们其实越过越好？ Somewhere along the great evolutionary journey of humanity, we lost our reverence for growing old (which, by the way, is totally natural and something we all go through!). So, if I were to narrow it down to just 5 things that keep us beautiful, filled with vitality and power, it would be the following: 沿着人类伟大的进化之路，我们不知在何处丧失了对衰老的崇敬（顺便提一句，衰老完全是自然发生的现象，而且我们都要经历！）。因此，如果要我总结出5件让我们保持美丽、充满活力和力量的事情，那么就是以下的5点： | 
