THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1985.
SUCCESS BORN OF FAILURE
PARADOXICAL OCCASIONS IN LIFE OF MAN
By OLIVER BALDWIN
There are occasions in the livestucts, and that each of us in our of most men and women when they own small circle can
are forced, perhaps by unemploy-power of doing good. ment or dissatisfaction, or even by
kavo auch
There are many people alive to- overhearing some chance remark, day who would have called Chriat to ask themselven whether or not a fallure and He lived in their time. they are what is termed a "fallure
If they are in poor health they will generally decide that they are Growing more and more depressed, they end by becoming a burden to themselves and a pest to their friends, or even an object of pity at a coroner's Inquest.
St. Franels of Assisi most certain ly would have received their con- demnation; and there is not an in- venter who died poar who is not called a fallure by such people for not having profited materially from his invention.
Yet men whose whote, lives have There is rarely any need for been spent training to kill their such a tragedy, for the trouble in- fellow-men are hallet, when that variably starts with a wrong under- training is put into practice, as standing of what failure is. Of greater successes than almost any course, if you not yourself are other follower of a profession. high standard such as to be Prime Such are the values some people Minister; or Fome
unnecessary set on the object of these short standard, such as to be minde years of life. knight; or some difficult standard, such as to write articles for a liv. ing, and do not succeed in attain-worthy of being enllet failures are ing it, you may well call yourself a failure in that one direction.
MIGHT HAVE BEENS Perhaps the people maat truly
the might-have-beens, Thase who, gifted above the ordinary, have wasted their talents, have shirked responsibility, or have never found their right niche in life,
iS. D. POINT OF VIEW The mistake is to consider that failure in attaining one's profess
Here, again, how much of that slunal -objective necessarily entails failure in life. It in only lately has been due to the temperament that success or failure has become with which they were born or the bound up with materialism, for socircumstances over which they have hard is the struggle to-day for no control? To-day we are learn- economic existence that we bringing how much a man's nature is all things down to a question of dependent upon internal glandular pounds, shillings, and pence secretions, and we are certainly
Therefore, We
Yet even materially success Jabord to pirase if we condemn a only relative; for a successful agri- man as a "failure" because of a cultural labourer at 30s, a week in deficiency or a surplus of such us far removed from material
Beretions. failure ns is a successful business
ኮነን beware man at £5,000 a year.
of thoughtless condemnation, for; Failure must never le measured! health bus more to do with nuceras in terms of money, for that way or failure than is generally ru lies a completely false conception alise of existener.
I is generally the materially-minded who appraisu i such things, and the fabic values they create are on a par with Jealousy of another's new clothes or of another's social connections,
There can be no failure where honest work is concerned. The do- ing of one's best may not bring success, but it is a definite contra dletion of failure in any sense but the most cruel.
In has
There are men who have thrown nwny glorious opportunities of How surress for conscience suke. do we appraise such people?
nction many cases such as praved a spiritual success and a material failure and it. therefore, slepinde upon which we place higher
the spirit or the matter-as to how we Judge.
Again, there are others who have turned their hand to a new mode In appraising such a thing, con-of life at middle age, unable to sideration must be made for your finish the task they enjoyed, for racons. Such people natural capability and the suit-economie
critical.
ability of the life's work under- have no cause for calling them- taken. It only when that is selves failures, though disappoint-
makes oft: n
Them self- understood that failure or success ment can truly be judged.
Success and failure are both -im- There are greater things than materia! success, and no man can postors, are both relative, and are be called a failure who has made analysed deeply. Therefore, those the life of a fellow-erenture or of people who are in despair and wor
should take heart and realise that such self-analysis is unnecessary, Generally it is the result of over- work or a bad digestion:-
a dumb animal happier. The crim-fied over their position in life inal who is sentenced for a solitary offence against society could only be truly a failure in life if that one action of his outweisthed all his past and there are very few people of whom that could ever be anld.
OBJECT OF EXISTENCE
Each one of us has some particu- far furrow to hoe, and as long as we keep at our job it is not for nankind to justge us. That furrow is not necessarily a defulte job of work, but is far more often, our
I have kurwn many people who have been called failures by more fortunate people, but compared general conduct of life, with several much-admired success." ful people these failures breone
THE MEASURE
Is the way we treat others people for whom to be thankful, and the happiness we spread that Apart from judging man as the gauge of our life with which failure in some special occupation, te mesure sucess or failure. a general Judgment cannot be minde Chice and for all we should refuse unless you define the object of ex-to acknowledge materialism in our istener.
appraisement unless we definitely
If it be to make money or to at-refer to pecuniary success. We tain a high social position, then the should realise that to gauge failure failures in life can be routed in by anything other than a man's their millions. If, on the other treatment of his fellow-men s lo hand, it be to make the world adeny the Christian purpose of exis. happier or saner place for the vast teure and to deny the basis of 'majority of its Inhabitants, then ethics.. are "fallures" often "auccessen."
In this connection we must not forget that the world is made hap pier and saner by little individual
Man was not put upon this earth
to make a fortune or to wear better i clothes than his neighbour or to wear medals on his breast. Such
Otto Kriez (left) and Severin Ruffio, who will leave Shanghal shortly in the Wotan, 25 feet con. verted lifeboat, for America win the South Sea Islands. Inset is shown the Wotan, the third of her
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Much intareal sena aktown in the pretty Shanghai wedding, which took place at Holy Trinity' Cathedral between Mr. Eric G. Gardner, of the Shanghai Land Investment Co., and Miss ·Marjorie Strike, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Strike. There was a large attendance both at the church and at the reception which was later held at the Masonic Hall.
The huge new pontoon of the City Government Ferry mcared off the Peking Road jetty was officially opened last week, a reception being held in the spacious and beautifully arranged restaurant on the promenade dock. Many high officials of the City Government and the S.M.C, attended. The above picture shows a view of the restaurant which is expected to prova vory popular especially in the summer months, when Shanghallanders will be making extensive use of the City Government's boats. The cuisine is under supervision of a former chief cook of Marcal's.
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**** The "photo" above of Mr. Lia Ben, President of the National Government, was taken at Naking whốn prominent oficiala parti. ipated in a tree planting ceremony' as part of the observance of the-tenth anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
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