MODERN LIFE
"We are in too much of a hurry to see or £o hear. In our haste we do not stop to understand, or even to wonder, why men and women utter cries of bitterness and anger," says Mr Warwick Deeping, in the Daily Express. '' We arc made irritable by haste. We are like people walking a little faster than is pleasant. We feel ragged and strained. But the trouble is inward. We have allowed modern life to hustle us. We have allowed physical haste so to act upon the mental part of us that our minds are dragged into the same hurried trot. We have lost inward rhythm. Need it be so? Suppose that, instead of making good resolutions, we were to tranquilise the rhythm of our living? Suppose we were to say to ourselves: I will not be in too much of a hurry. I will not rush past like' a runaway horse in blinkers. I will have time to watch my child play. I will have time to listen to the other fellow when he has something in his soul. I will have time to try to understand. 1 will not be in a hurry to say the bitter and the shallow and the cynical thing because my own inward haste has made me irritable and weary. I will stand still sometimes and possess my soul in
peace.''
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3079, 12 April 1927, Page 4
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