Show IMPORT C BEING I 1 matter of moment 0 look at it the importance of bel be r tant Is it seems to me bingly impressive to th 2 9 would like to be or ite seem to be import mr cato 11 c th there r are anre people who ar BK edly important por tant b but I 1 t it la is no muc much it the result of th their air special efforts f orts to be important as of a combination of circumstances and their individual talents that Is to say they are not important merely because they want to be important but because of the natural order of things there are other people who are not important but who seem to be important I 1 dont know whether this Is merely the result of chance or la Is brought a bout about by good management which ever itts it Is it seems seeing to require no great effort by them and they undoubtedly fool a great many people sometimes I 1 suspect that they even fool themselves there are still others of high ambition or perhaps strong egotism who notwithstanding their vast expenditure of effort thought and imagination are unable to make themselves seem important and their persistence Is a trial to their own nerves and an irritation or er even worse a bore to their acquaintances quain I 1 ems t to 0 me that being ats st be rather burden lulng ing to tn be important on him who Is linings lini I 1 are loaded that I 1 be carried by oth ith his peculiar tat tal bat tat he finds oppressive I 1 at 11 would crush most ot of the res rest ot ol importance la Is his job la in the wort world sud he Is built to endure it it it Is n likely that the burden of 0 imitation I 1 I 1 ifal ortance that Is that carried b by the people pie who seem important I 1 Is heavy added to the w workaday pack of him who Is important it Is probable that it would hardly be noticed but for the he carriers it Is sometimes so great that close observation shows that now and then they stagger under it for all their kuack knack of maintaining misleading appearances theirs Is a hard bard life but they like it because so many people think that they are important sly my sympathy goes out to those who want to seem important and ami cant they strive so hard and achieve so little nor do they ask much for while they would undoubtedly like to be important they would be fairly well content it they could just manage to seem important life with them must be a succession of disappointments of trial and error with error predominating it seems to me that somebody whose oral flow and command of expression were equal to it should explain to them that they do not know when they are well off for not being important Is one of the easiest if not the aas test lest of lifes assignments he ha who la Is important pays for it with hard bard work however equal to the task he way may be he who seems to be important pays for it with worry whatever the degree of tranquility he h may present to the world he ha who falls lo in his big efforts to seem been important must find a bitter tang in all lifes life savors on the other hand band he be who Is in willing to leave the job of belne being important por tant or seeming important to others Is relieved of many of most arduous requirements we his responsibilities are light and his obligations are lighter for he be does note not like the people who are important or who seem important have to be all things to all men it la Is his privilege to get out of the burly burly for a contemplative period now inow and then and thank his lucky stars that he be has no aspirations that interfere with a quiet and comfortable life what things do yu you regard as ai important nowadays I 1 asked buck how would I 1 knoer be h responded spon ded why you knoer only the historians of century hence will be able to tell what was wai important nowadays 1 indianapolis news |