The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-07
Life Is Not
as Drub as
Youth Feels
BY MARTHA LEE

What / hate most Of all about
life" says q worldly young man Of
p In a letter today. lis the deadly
monotony Of it. Every day IS dull
gray counterpart Of the day before.
"An the people one meets say the
same things. thirk the same
thoughts. act the same way. I'm 50
bored with it all. and I'm only p.
with prospects Of a long life filled
with the same maddening repetition
20 be lived through"
Life does look dull and monoto-
nous and hardly worth living to q
year-olds every once in a while.
They have had lots Of leisure. in
which they have stuffed all the
experience they possibly can get.
They have. they reel, read. seen and
done everything that is worth while.
And there doesn't seem 70 be any
thing very much left.
That's Just part Of being %. It's
part Of the depression that comes
when the mind sheds its swaddling
clothes and dons the apparel Of
grown-ups.
It's a transition period. A time
when we are casting of old ideas
and taking on new ones. When we
re-evaluate life and people in gen.
eraL It's the sort Of mental and
spiritual growing pains that must
be gone through in order to have
mature understanding, the same as
we must have a certain siege Of
growing pains in order to develop
physically.
Not Really Serious
It really is not a serious condi-
ton. Merely tragic for the person
going through it and annoying Cor
amusing) to those associated with
the person who is stretching out.
Our grSndmothers and grand
fathers. and even their predecessors
underwent the same phenomenon.
Even when life was a simple process
Of going from day to day without
ever knowing when the Indians were
going to start a massacre, young
pioneers found life unbearably mo-
notonous.
The monotony is a reflection Of
the inc..pability OF a person to as
simulate all the exciting, stimulating
things that are going on about us
constantly.
Life Is more romantic today than
It has ever been in any period Of
history. Our chances for escaping
the sameness of surroundings. peo-
pie, ideas. conversations and all the
rest Of it are even greater than
ever before.
More Pert of Youth
Being bored belongs to the very
young or the very old. And it is
more apt 70 be a part Of yc
more than of age.
If I were very young and had a
feeling that life was useless, I
should HE myself out every morn
ing about 6 or earlier for long
walk. There is a whole week of
glory and renewed interest to be
gained by one lovely sunrise. And
nobody ever was gloomy long on
full stomach. Walking fixes that
little item up quickly enough.
I should readju-t my mental ca
pacity through philosophy and
little sane linking so that I could
take it on the chin without going.
down for the court. I should make
myself realize that all the romance
and excitement I was going to get
out Of life would be through my
own ability to see those things in
the daily happenings.
Needs Mental Shaking
If I were % and bored with living,
I would give myself a mental shak-
ing for still believing, as I did when
I was II. that the " exciting
thrilling things that ever happen in
this life belong to the explorers and
scientists and adventures.
And I should find something
better to do with my time than sit
and NOPE because I was foolish
enough to think that I had seen,
done and experienced everything
there was to see. do and experience
in life.
If one lives to be a thousand, it
still is a falIacy that there is nothing
new in the world.
Insane Man Divorced