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Show WHAT MATTERS MOST IN LIFE? IJeverly Nichols, English-born writer, gives his answer an-swer to the above question, and his opinion sounds strange. He seems to have missed the fact that there is a pleasure to be gained in saving and in worthy and purposeful sacrifices. He perhops overlooks the fact that once one has found his 'niche', then work is not altogether deadening nor overly-engrossing. overly-engrossing. Indeed, why spend one's all on Tuesday, on the possibility of being struck by a bus on Wednesday? And cannot one buy some roses and yet lay aside a little with which to buy roses tomorrow, when there will be perhaps no income? Whether or not you agre-e with Mr. Nichols, you'll find his article interesting. It is as follows: "Since I have come to America I see evidences of a perpetual per-petual living for the future a perpetual looking forward to the crop that is to come, while the golden apples that lie at your feet are allowed to rot away. "I see young nu n who think of nothing but saving, in order that they may have an income when they are fifty. Dreary thought! How do you know you will ever be fifty? How do you know that you mayn't be run over by a bus as soon as you have read this article? I see young men sticking stick-ing to the strict and narrow path of office routine merely because they have worked out, by some stultifying process, that if they go on for another thirty years, they will become be-come manager of their branch. And then what, I ask you, and then what'.' What of the sunsets you have missed because be-cause you hurried home to study? What of the roses, long dead now, that you didn't bay because your.eyes were fixed on the savings bank? What of the laughter that has echoed -away into an eternal silence because you were thinking of the great things you are going to do tomorrow, or the little things you did yesterday? ' For always remember this, my friends; if it happens to be Tuesday, you can only laugh on Tuesday. Which isn't quite so trite as it seems. |
