Wednesday, November 12, 2008

AGE AND YOUTH by Pablo Casals

1, What attitude toward life does Casals have?

Age is a relative matter. If you continue to work and to absorb the beauty in the world about you, you find that age does not necessarily mean getting old. At least, not in the ordinary sense. I feel many things more intensely than ever before, and for me life grows more fascinating.

2, What does retirement mean to Casals?

The word is alien and the idea inconceivable to him. He doesn't believe in retirement for anyone in his type of one without the other. To "retire" means to me to begin to die. The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age. Each day he is reborn. Each day he must begin again.

3,Why does Casals live by the sea? What effect does the sea have on him?
Casals lives by the sea because he has always especially loved the sea.
It has long been a custom of his to walk along the beach each morning before he start work.It is never the same, never, not from one moment to the next, always in the process of change, always becoming something different and new.

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