Evening star., 1933-10-29
Aspect on Life
Should Young People Be Serious :
BY ARTHUR DEAN. Sc.D.

~ o you think" writes a
% young reader, that 16-
yeer-o1d boy or girl should
~ forget thoughts of serious
things and should play
while he or she is young? Should
drink and be merry today for tomorrow
we die, or should young person look
upon life as serious thing, and
worth while thing, too. and prepare
himself to live in it in a way by which
he will derive permanent satisfaction
in life?"
That's grand question, my young
friend, and an extremely important
one. Right off the bat. let me say
to have good time in life, and ought
to have love and affection Let's take
these things for granted
But there are more things In life
than seeking love, happiness and con-
tentment. especially in view of the fact
that these things do no. come to any
great degree when one seeks only them.
They come out Of seeking something
else. LOIS OF people 60 out seeking
health, because they cont feel well
They read books on health, follow diets,
concentrate all their mind and most of
their life on thinking about their own
health.
X X X
NOW we all know, in these saner
days, that person who seeks
health by talking about it, reading
about it and thinking about it does
not get it near SO quickly as one who
lives a normal life of work, play. sleep,
good food and wholesome thought
We are all anxious to be popular and
some of us think we can be popular by
sitting down and wishing for it, or BY
moping over the fact that we are not
popular. hoping that come one will hear
our S CHS and will come to us and say,
you poor dear, you want love--here
1t Isl"
No. the world does not work that
way 1t loves those who love. it, 1t
world loves to give love when it gets
love, but it does not give love for
nothing.
There are a lot of worth while things
in this world, my young friend. which
are not in your creed of "eat, drink and
still old-fashioned enough to believe
that the greatest things in life are
work. love. and few friends-real
friends, I mean. the kind you can talk
with and feel as though they were say
ing something and saying it truth
fully
WE cant get along without work.
w See how unhappy tie whole world
has been bccausc it d'd7't have work.
We need work not simply because 1t
brings in money. but because it oc-
cupies our mind cur time, cur future,
our interest-yes. even our life. l
would simply die if I didn't have work
to do.
Then there are deep and abiding love
and friendship, and we don't get the
right sort of friends and the right
sort of love out of this "eat, drink and
be merry because tomorrow we die"
attitude toward living. Real friends
and real love don't come from bottle
or from gluttonous eating. True
friendship Is the result OF doing worth
while things together.
The serious aspect Of life Is interest
ing to those who want to get aneao.
am not asking young people to act
all the time as though thsy were at
funeral. or to spend every minute IN
Studying. reading or thinking serious
thniehts. Eut habits are formed in
youtI1. form,l education must be gained
when one is young. health. character
and personality get very much OF q
"set" when one is young. We simply
cannot "eat. drink and be merry" all
the time during the impressionaoie
wears and then suddenly change over
and find ourselves educated, well-man-
nered cultured, possessing many nne
friends. flled with ambition, and all
set for personal and vocational success.
(CoDvr:sit. 1933o