Show living by spurts T THERE HERE are people who do their work in the world evenly steadily quietly they get up in the morning knowing that the day has its appointed task which must be done they dispose of the task with serene exactitude the next day brings another and the next another each is performed in the same spirit there is competence accuracy but no excitement no enthusiasm and likewise there is no discouragement or despondency such persons take work and play as they take sleeping and eating as part of the ane routine of life other people live and move by spurts everything with them is a matter of zeal and passion there are days when their daily labor takes on a glory they see rich possibilities in it of achievement and distinction they throw themselves into it entirely they see new openings for effort and take advantage of them build large and splendid edifices of hope and confidence and call upon every resource of their spirits to realize them then come days of reaction perhaps there is a physical element to consider at any rate the spurt collapses it if there is character behind it the man goes on working somehow gets his daily t task ask done but there is no passion in it and very little hope such lives are made up of alternations of enthusiasm and despair |