WORLDLY SUCCESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

WORLDLY SUCCESS.

CULTIVATE HAPPINESS. SELF-SACRIFICE. 9 Weigh up the things that make up your life and find out which are most worth while. We all spend many years of our lives running after strange gods, bowing down to them and serving them, only to realise at last that they have no part nor lot in our hearts at all; some of us strive for worldly success as an aim in itself, others for public recognition, however small, others for the happiness of those we love.

But, after all, what does worldly success mean to us ? Is not it merely a means to an end, that end being a feeling of security that gives us leisure for the greater, more important things ? And theso important things? Surely, the forming of human contacts through people and books, the deep understanding of human life and human nature ? And what do we want of public recognition ? Is not it that same feeling of security that we are seeking here, too—the feeling of having " got across " to other human beings, having been understood by them ? Then supposing we are spending all our energies working for the happiness of those we love? Would not it be wiser to cultivate happiness as a beautiful plant in itself ? Those who are happy in themselves radiate happiness on all round them much more than those who are always striving to " give happiness to others." Find out what you want from life and go hot and strong for it, so long as you hurt nobody in the process. Self-sacri-fice when it means that you deflected from your chosen course never brings happiness, even to those for whom you make the sacrifice.