I’m young wherever I am perceptive and eager to learn. I can always immerse myself in something, or let something flow into me to discover what it’s all about. No matter my age, I can still be amazed. And wonder is tied to joy; it awakens life forces. I can be an explorer, discovering paths, territories, connections, and the unfamiliar. A spirit of adventure is part of it. The will wants to play, wants to know how it feels. It seeks the world and not the absolute. Age, and therefore youth, is a temporal being. As long as we are still here in this world, we can be young: seeing something for the first time even if we’ve seen it a thousand times before, experiencing something that is new. In this way, I remain and become new to myself. Or is it the world that remains forever young to me? In growing older, do I become the youthful world?

Translation Laura Liska
Image Impressions from the International Student Conference (ISC) 2026, Photo: Sabrina Xuan