1935.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19463, 31 December 1934, Page 9

1935.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —To look back over another year, with its opportunities slipped, a few things accomplished and much left behind, undone, is not -wisdom, nor healthy for either mind or - body. Look at the young people, and notice how they are always thinking of further achievement ahead. Look at Nature. Every growth from the earth is upward. Progression forward. Only man is in the doldrums, and in a maze of thought as to whither. 1935 will be what we make it, whether we are up or down, -failures or successes. Does not Kipling say that these two are “imposters,” so why bother about them? '

As to the usual “resolutions," away with them. Pitch your thinking high, in the clouds if you like, for from the clouds comes the beneflcient rain; and above the clouds is the sifn, Nature’s health-giver; and beyond the sun is the universe, and all that stands for; and there time is no more, and it is the eternal now, and that is everlasting. Think in terms of eternity, for we are all children of the light, and a thousand years are but as a day; and we shall live when this earth is just a remembrance in the dim shadows of a fleeting past, but we remain and live. So let us put ourselves in the right perspective and then answer this ciuestion: Dare we lower our manhoodto lower levels and live without guidance or noble thoughts?—l am, etc., MARCUS JAMES. Hamilton, December 26, 1934.