Old Monk Quote if I Had Life to Live Over Again

At that place have been many versions of this poem. The ane I grew up reading was attributed to Nadine Stair. It appears first. What follows is, co-ordinate to Benjamin Rossen, a copy of the primeval verifiable publication of this material. Information technology tin can be found in the Reader'south Digest, October 1953 issue, where information technology was attributed to Don Herold (1889-1966), author and humorist.

If I Had My Life Over - I'd Pick More than Daisies

Nadine Stair

If I had my life to alive over, I'd cartel to make more than mistakes next time. I'd relax, I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would have fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would consume more than water ice cream and less beans. I would peradventure have more bodily troubles, but I'd accept fewer imaginary ones.

You see, I'm 1 of those people who lived sensibly and sanely, hour afterward hour, twenty-four hour period afterward 24-hour interval. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it over over again, I'd accept more of them. In fact, I'd attempt to accept nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living and so many years ahead of each day. I've been ane of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat and a parachute. If I had to practice it once again, I would travel lighter than I have.

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the jump and stay that style afterward in the fall. I would go to more than dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would selection more than daisies.

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Don Herold

Of class, you can't unfry an egg, but there is no police force confronting thinking about it.

If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more than mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would exist less hygienic. I would get more than places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice foam and less bran.

I would accept more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles. You run across, I accept been i of those fellows who live prudently and sanely, hr after hour, day subsequently day. Oh, I have had my moments. But if I had it to do over again, I would have more of them - a lot more than. I never go anywhere without a thermometer, a gargle, a raincoat and a parachute. If I had information technology to practise over, I would travel lighter.

It may be too tardily to unteach an erstwhile canis familiaris sometime tricks, but maybe a word from the unwise may be of benefit to a coming generation. Information technology may help them to fall into some of the pitfalls I accept avoided.

If I had my life to live over, I would pay less attention to people who teach tension. In a world of specialization nosotros naturally accept a superabundance of individuals who cry at united states of america to exist serious about their individual specialty. They tell u.s.a. nosotros must learn Latin or History; otherwise nosotros volition be disgraced and ruined and flunked and failed. After a dozen or so of these protagonists have worked on a young listen, they are apt to leave it in difficult knots for life. I wish they had sold me Latin and History as a lark.

I would seek out more teachers who inspire relaxation and fun. I had a few of them, fortunately, and I figure it was they who kept me from going entirely to the dogs. From them I learned how to gather what few scraggly daisies I accept gathered forth life's cindery pathway.

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefooted a little earlier in the spring and stay that way a picayune afterward in the fall. I would play hooky more than. I would shoot more newspaper wads at my teachers. I would have more dogs. I would keep later hours. I'd have more sweethearts. I would fish more than. I would go to more circuses. I would go to more dances. I would ride on more than merry-get-rounds. I would be carefree as long every bit I could, or at least until I got some care- instead of having my cares in advance.

More errors are made solemnly than in fun. The rubs of family unit life come in moments of intense seriousness rather that in moments of light-heartedness. If nations - to magnify my point - alleged international carnivals instead of international war, how much better that would be!

One thousand.K. Chesterton in one case said, "A characteristic of the keen saints is their power of levity. Angels can fly because they can have themselves lightly. I 'settles down' into a sort of selfish seriousness; only one has to ascension to a gay self-forgetfulness. A man falls into a 'brown study'; he reaches upwards at a bluish sky."

In a earth in which practically everybody else seems to exist consecrated to the gravity of the situation, I would rise to glorify the levity of the situation. For I concur with Will Durant that "gaiety is wiser than wisdom."

I doubtfulness, withal, that I'll practise much damage with my creed. The opposition is as well strong. There are besides many serious people trying to get everybody else to be too darned serious.

K. H. Grobman

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