"You are my dream and my distant horizon, a place I can never reach." This was a short poem I wrote in high school. At the time, I didn’t really know what I was trying to express—complex emotions that couldn’t be distilled into concise phrases. The disjointed sentences mirrored the disorganized life I was living, where the words I said lacked structure. The overwhelming emotions that I couldn’t capture with language were an experience unique to youth.

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Faye Wong and Eason Chan once sang the famous duet “Because of Love,” with lyrics that go, "I can no longer sing such songs / That make me blush and hide / Though I may often forget / I still love you." It portrays a couple who has been together for a long time, no longer experiencing the passionate fervor of youthful love, but instead, feeling the gentle shyness of adulthood.

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Yesterday, I found myself filled with an unusual wave of emotion and wanted to write poetry again. However, I realized I could no longer write poems as emotionally rich as I did in high school. The better I’ve become at mastering language, the harder it’s become to express the complex and winding emotions within me. This is a strange new experience—the more familiar you are with a language, the less precise it feels.

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As we grow older, we speak more cautiously, losing the boldness to use language freely. Reading the words I wrote when I was young often makes me cringe with embarrassment, because my younger self was so daring—perhaps even reckless. Life was reckless, falling in love was reckless, and writing love letters was reckless too. I clumsily expressed my emotions with rough words, something I only dared to do when I was young. Those embarrassing lines, however, are words I’ve kept and cherished for a long time.

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"You are the purpose of the journey. The purpose of the journey is to travel with you, to the places I want to go, to the places you want to go, to the crossroads of dreams, to the mountains, to the wilderness." I wrote this line after a trip in college. The sentence was a little more concrete than the ones from high school, but it somehow felt less emotionally charged. If there’s a way to stay forever youthful, perhaps it’s to keep a certain level of reckless courage.

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Perhaps the way to live a life filled with dreams and distant horizons is to regain the courage to boldly use language. The older we get, the more cautious we become—we think more and speak less, a sign of maturity. But if we really want to recapture that courage to live fully and feel the thrill of life, maybe we should dare to live a little bolder.

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