LOOKING AHEAD.
It was the day before Billy's birthday. "I want "you to come with me and choose a now pair of trousers/ said the boy's mother. "They will be a present from father and myself, . Reaching the "village, Higlt Street, mother and son made good inspection of shops. • . . "Have you seen a pair that you like yet " asked.-his matter as they gazed into a cloithder's shop. > •.."Not yet, : man! M replied the boy. i Prcsenftly they moved ori to aniot'heT shop, and before.the boy^s mother had time to., look round, Billy gave a yolli of deligih>t. "I've 'decided mum/ he said, "I'll have thVit ' pair marked 'Cannot 'bo beaten!' ■'/. ./ , ' MY XE^AL. .... I want the power to live more intensely with every faculty of my being, so that I may make the most of every hour tihiat is bestowed on me. I wish tfo eliminate waste from my enjoyment of the miracle of breathing, seeing, hearing,: smelling, touching and thjnking. I desire to use every moment showered- on me by the beneficence and benevoleneo and beauty of life.
"•I want to sift the values of living so that I may not fritter away my time on base tilings, . mean things, s-hoddy things.. N 6 hate, no envy, mo selfishness, no stooping murkinesis of the soul! No quarter with sloth or fear or doubt or false-hood! No/hypocrisy! No time-serving!
Life's more than breath and the quick •round of blood. "
One generous feeling, one great thougM, one dceu .
Of £pod, ere might, would make life ~ longer seem
/Than if each year might number a thousand days
We live in deeds, not years, in thought, not breathe;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count tim© toy heart-throbs.. He who liveo
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best
Why -will wo live and not be glorious'? And lite .so varied hntih more loveliness In one day than a creeping century of sameness. - ■.'XSHSir the ■writer of this—James Dou-glas—-appends the following:— This is all. I vranst in 1930. If I got fiiC per cent of it,, then 1930 will be m> v an mis mirabilis. -
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Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 49, 15 May 1930, Page 2
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356LOOKING AHEAD. Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 49, 15 May 1930, Page 2
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