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Show Is Life Worth Living? It is a question which philosophers of all times have taken seriously and which intelligent people ask today. Yet it is a question which, to borrow bor-row the terminology of the law, is "incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial." imma-terial." It is "incompetent" because the question involves every single one of us. and no one of us can answer fot the rest of us. It is "irrelevant" because It makes no difference whether you think life Is worth living or not you have to go on living just the same unless you swallow bichloride or something. And It Is "Immaterial" because the real issue every one of us ought to have out with ourselves ir not "Is life worth living?" but "Am I making my life worth living?" If my life is not worth living, what makes It a failure? The right and obvious thing for any man or woman to do who feels that his or her life i a failure is to try to make it a success, to try to remedy the conditions in his or her life that make it not worth living so It will become very much worth living. "A man loses faith in angels after he has married one," says the cynic. "Married life Is what you make It," purries the op'timist. "This Is a 'dead' place," said a new arrival at a pleasure resort. "Everybody "Every-body makes his own good time," somebody some-body chirped. So the whole of life Is pretty much what you make it and throughout, ev- j fy man and every woman has to make his or her own "good time" make his or her life worth living. "The essentials are all about us," wrote Ruskln. And they are to be had for the taking. Family associations, love, a few faithful friends, good books, time for ''lection, useful work, honest ambition ambi-tion all Judiciously Interspersed with I'kv. exercise and fresh air simmered sim-mered down, there are the things hlch alone will make any life worth Wng. All of which, In a measure, a benevolent Trovidence has placed witlin the reach of every one of us. |