| Show THE DANGER OF WAITING life can play foul jokes on people nople some times in a large middle western city city there was a grocer who worked very hard and saved his money religiously so that his old age would be provided for for 50 years he be stuck to his grocery store he worked and saved too hard to have very much fun but he was looking forward to the day when he be could retire then he be would have his fun he would have money and leisure and he would make up for the years of hard work well he finally retired money in the bank an assured income a nice home everything he needed now he told his friends 1 I am going to enjoy life and just ZI 21 2 1 hours after lie he retired he dropped dead if a novelist putt put that hatina in a boo book we believe it we would say that things dont really happen that way and we would accuse the novelist of straining too hard for an ironic effect 1 but life takes queer twists that are not permitted to good fiction it all happened precisely as it is described here and all we can do is admit that there are times when wisdom and prudence are horribly confounded As a matter of fact this sort of thing happens fairly often in in a little different way not many people who have prepared for a carefree and leisurely old age die just as they begin to taste their reward of course but they get cheated out of their dues just the he same they find that leisure after a lifetime of hard work is boredom they find that they have lave forgotten how to play they ind find that the empty hours are depressing because they do not know what to do with them they find themselves feeling that they have lave been put upon the shelf and they gr grow ow 10 years older in 12 months perhaps we arent meant to be too 00 oo cautious dedering De fering ones happiness pi nests to the end when one will have lave time and the means to take it is risky for most of us that gilded tomorrow will never dawn if we dont get our happiness along the way we shall never get it at all that is a lesson worth learning the real joy of living is not something that can be banked edana and drawn on at some future date it has to be taken from day to day it is compounded usually of many little experiences the haze of an autumn afternoon over a flaming woodland the confiding smile of a child nestling in ones arms for a fairy tale the smell of a clear wind as one trudges along the beach by blue water the sudden revelation of tenderness in the eyes of a loved one the brief vanishing strain of a bit of music of such thi things is is satisfying life fabricated you cannot postpone them you can not wait for them you m must get them as you go along or you will miss them entirely standard excelsior springs Alis missouri |
