“Merilyn” says...

Northern Advocate, 28 January 1939, Page 2

“Merilyn” says...

0 N a bright, bright day have you

ever seen pale blue smoke curling up over a hill ? Up and up it curls until a faint blue wisp, it ends in nothingness, yet even as it fades, another stream of smoko comes from the fire to end the same way. It is beautiful. but soon lost.

Often our resolutions are like that; beautiful, frail things they arc, easily broken, but not easily mended. How our minds dislike discipline, yet how excellent, it is for our characters. Wo do not stop to ihink about the advantages at the time. Wo. merely tell-our-selves th.al wo cannot possibly do such a thing and hoove it at that.

But, after seeing the visions of what out life could bo, can we lot it rest there ? Wo could never bo content with less than the best after. The good is not enough, for it is the enemy of the best. Happiness means content-

meat and when we are always striving somehow to subdue our higher impulses and lessen our discipline, we cannot bo contented.

By subduing our higher impulses I mean not giving them their fullest expression. To have a happy, free and contented life ourselves wo must be having maximum expression. V ♦ % 9 Life’s what you make it; and the bloke trios. To grab the shining’ stars frum out the skies floes crook on life and, calls the world a cheat. An' tramples on the daisies at, ’is feel! * :> * ♦ So wrote Dennis in the “Sentimental Bioko" Life is what you make it and contentment comes from doing little things well and being happy where we are.

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