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Show Maybe Yaa Haven't Lived THERE'S A TOUCHING STORY from A. R. Murfotan, New Plymouth, New Zealand. It is the kind of story that makes me want to make this column better and better. You will know why as you read. I quote Mr. Murfotan: "If anyone had asked me a few weeks ago, what sort of a man I was, the reply probably would have run something like this: 'I am a normal sort of a chap who makes the best of things, and though my wife and I have our differences. we have managed to stir, k together for nearly 30 years.' "Yes, thai is what I would have said a few weeks ago, but that is not what I - now. I thought I was trying to make i ' '. best of things, but it is as if I were ing so with my eyes closed. After serv-i. serv-i. ; in the last war, I managed to carry on at my pre-war occupation for two years, l. jn I was sent to the hospital with acute . ronary thrombosis. It was a bad show Carnegie a tl when I left the hospital I was told I d never work again. From the past two wars, for I sirved in both, I have cH?cted disabilities amounting to 145 per cent. "Then I read some of your columns and learned how other men suffered and how they pulled through, under a great variety of difficulties, and I realized that for all these years I haven't been living at all. I was either living in the past, worrying ovr lost opportunities, or else wondering and worrying about v.iial the future held for me. I certainly had not, lived. "But now I have begun to live. I sleep like a log. One morning when my wife brought my breakfast to I: 1, I realized that she was virtually a stranger to me; t :t for nearly 30 years I had taken her for granted. Luddenly I decided that I was going to make her acquaintance, ac-quaintance, that what time remains for us to be together, togeth-er, is going to be real. There is only 'today' and every today is going to count. "I once wrote of my experiences and called it 'And Things Came Right.' I now see that things never would have come right if I had continued to face them as I had been doing. But things are started right now." If Mr. Murfotan has made even one of you readers know the value of living foi- the day, of looking yourself over and deciding decid-ing to live not only for yourself but for others, what he has written will be so valuable that one couldn't afford the space in this paper to tell about it. |