Show BUT NO PERFORMANCE Hell they say Is paved with good Intentions Dut But adds a avise wIse woman BO se 60 Is heaven beaven Whoever was tho too misanthrope oho ho wrote the first phrase no one knows but It Is a destructive piece ot of cynicism at best Good Intentions lions without good performances are supposed to be the kind ot of paving stones out ot of o which xe e build the TOa road d to sin and failure tallue But Dut that Is only a miserable half truth It must have been said first by byone byone ono one who realized how often we rest on these good Intentions and confuse them with actual perform perform- performance performance performance ance Having made up our minds to do a kind act we experience II a aglow aglow glow of ot virtuous satisfaction and confuse that glow with the true elation which follows the fine lne per per- performance per Ah we lia say Ill write nite those letters this morning and how flue fine I will feel Ceel that all this has been accomplished Once again I will willbe willbe be restored to the good graces ot of my friends whom hom I have so scan scan- scandalously scandalously scandalously neglected Then we wa proceed to exult In Inthe Inthe Inthe the sense of ot virtue which we have gained from our Imagined good deeds That sort ot of o good Intentions it itIs itis ItIs Is true does lead to failure It If they all ended ther there the pher phEt who first coined the phrase phrase would be quite right rl ht for Cor our good intentions would then only lead to Inaction and failure But Dut what that cynical chap seemed seemed to overlook was the tact fact that good Intention does have to precede a good deed The moral is quite clear Dont Don't be afraid ot of good Intentions Even If it some ot of them end In thin air the road to heaven heaTen would never be made m d smooth and straight without them Ah you say sar I am surely go go- g going going ing to carry this bunch ot of maga to a sick friend and do other things But Dut at the end of ot the day some someo ot of those fair Intentions have end ends endi ed In a swamp ot ot ot failure ended In a a blank desert of ot nothingness Then you quote the old proverb and give up In despaIr despair Hell Is paved with good Intentions but dont don't forget to o add So Is heaven healen Without the wish and the will to have performed some Bome of these worthy orthy deeds not one ot of them would have been accomplished What to do then It if some some- sometime some time we tall fail Start over again and Intend a little harder the next day to make the days day's performance fit that pat pat- pattern tern pat tern of ot perfection which the mind has For It if you make the pattern often enough and fall faU fallin allIn In love with the pattern gradually the performance matches It There Is this to remember We may not arrive e If It we do not start Good Intentions are not to be de- de despised de despised we would te be quite lost lostin lostin lostIn in failure and despair without them nn |