The Washington times., 1921-10-22
The Value of Time HO1p
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u this earth ,..;.. .-... ,,;nn. -,
next few years dropping illusions by and the las
few years regretting the mistakes the missed opportuni
ties and the time of the whole life And after tina
comes the grave, and perhaps new shuttle OF the card
and a new beginning here where we left off,
On this earth, full of opportunities, filled with won
ders surrounded by the mystery of the infinite man ap
for seconda second at least in the eyes OF the
infnitude. And during his little second earth HH
ACTUALLY DEVOTES MOST OF HIS ATTENTION TIC
DISCOVERING SOME WAY "OF PASSING THE
TIME"
Have you noticed how the people pass the time how they
try to make the hours fly by unnoced7
They walk into railroad station. They put penny il
machine to make 1T play some foolish tune Then they
listen, passing the time, the brain dead
They go to a restaurant. They order what they want
Immediately terrific noise begins. band is playing
and again the time passes and again thought is impossible
They each other They talk certain definite plai
tudes weather. baseball jokes, nothing in particular
| again the time passes-and passes very fast
The husband goes home and tells his little trashy story
of the day to his wife, and that passes time And then
she tells her little trashy story about nothing at al-anc
| that passes more time
| And by and by they go to bed and sleep-and that
| passes about Onethird of all their time.
And it goes
Men play cards in the train to pass the time Men lean
back and sleep their from big city to another ia
pass the time They forget how much time they VIII have
to sleep in the grave; they forget how rapidly the time
will pass then For dead, like man asleep when
he again doesn't know whether second or million
years have passed.
|
shall we pass time till and homer? Those
are the questions that modern human beings ask
There are books that need reading there thinking that
every and and child can do There are prob.
that need to be settled There work that can be
done to develop the mind the muscle or the character
There good task for every hour task that is better
for the mind than idle rest which is death intellectual
Take any of the and women who devote their
energies nox to ''passng the time and put that man
or woman on another planet Mars with its great canals
Saturn with the rings, Jupiter with the many moons
You could imagine that human being content Ito pass
the time Eyes and would be all of the senses
would be awake eager to study the wonders OF the new
| and mysterious environment.
There is nothing marvellous on any planet at least
far intellectual capacity for receiving impressions
goes than upon this planet Of our own.
Every little blade of grass growing every change of the
clouds and the wind every expression on chids face
every indication of happiness sorrow among human
beings, is worthy of the earnest attention of man-pro
| viding he is fit to be called man.
There is occupation for every waking second-but the
great majority of when not worrying about mis-
takes in the past struggling for dollar in the present.
| or fretting about uncertain future ACTUALLY TRY
| TO PASS OUR TIME
For this as race we cannot blame ourselves For only
since yesterday have up from the animal condition,
where the brain little developed where the mind
nothing and where the muscles and appetite all The
latest faculty acquired is the faculty most easily atgued
thought and abstract speculation are our recently acqr
| ed faculties.
| It is probable that not one man in thousand
among the ables capable of four hours actual
thought in the day. 1t probable that the average human
being lives and dies without four hours of real thought
his whole life.
1t is also probable that you, assuming you to be good
fair individual, might be capable of fifteen minutes
thought per day. If you should try it, the fifteen minutes
would grow into thirty minutes and eventually you
might be able to spend hour in actual thought
problem Of Importance to yourself and to others.
That would be better than many nickelin the slot ma
chimes or many brass bands better than many bridge
games baseball games and poker games Better many
| hours and weeks of gossip without meaning.
book in rocket a definite train of Thought