QUALITY OF LIVING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 86, 22 January 1942, Page 4

QUALITY OF LIVING.

It is not the events of life that make life worth while, writes Father Aloysius Roche in his book, “The Things That Matter.” It is not by the quantity of things that keep happening to us. that, we are to gauge the value and fullness and completeness of our life. What matters essentially isi our attiude to our life, the way in which we face up to it, the way in which we treat it. It is not the quantity of stuff that is in our life that counts: it is the quality. It is not enough to say: “My life Is filled to the very brim with interests and activities.” We must ask: “What sort of interests: and activities are these?” It is easy enough, very easy to fill one’s life up with things that do not really matter at all, with trifles. It is not enough to say: “The vessel is filled. It is as full as can be.” Filled! Yes, perhaps.; but filled with what? Nowadays, it is considered a great thing to fill one’s life up somehow, with no matter what. .But it is what is ill the vessel, it is what the vessel contains, that alone matters, not its fullness. Mere fullness is of no consequence.