A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1929, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

DON’T DRIFT!

Some humans emulate the snail in their pace through life— Some amble and ramble through— Some walk, others run— Some dream, other make the pace—and tlie pacers are the darers and the doers. Even if your pace he a snail’s pace, keep moving! Have a sense of direction and goal. Don’t drift—for a drifter is doomed. He’s on the toboggan, headed for nowhere, and he will arrive—on time—right there. The drifter is always a failure. Drifting is always fatal; fatal in national life, fatal m social life, fatal to business, fatal to character, fatal to success, fatal to health. You cannot develop your country by drift; you cannot develop your business bv drift; you cannot realize your ideals or your hopes by drift; yuu cannot overcome obstacles or make your goal by drift. Drift is doom. Creep—a m hie—ra m bio—walk—ru n—rush—dream—dare—do, hut don’t drift. There, are many now of my acquaintances who are capable of great deeds, blessed with great powers; but those deeds will never be done ; those powers will never be revealed. I hey are drifters. They are like the man who was going “ to bleach the moon and freeze the sun, but when he died there was nothing done ” —lie was a drilter. Don’t drift! —M. PRESTON STANLEY.