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What About Leisure Time in The Stelle
Group? Question: What about the use of leisure time for The
Stelle Group?
You seem to be a working Group. Answer: I
believe that most people do not really know what to do with leisure time.
Most of the things that The Stelle Group is involved in are highly
educational. If we take what leisure time we have and donate it to activities
within The Stelle Group, it seems to be uplifting and recreational. The break
is refreshing when you do one job for 50 hours and then do another job for
16. Many people expend their excess energies in sports, which is fine; but sports are usually not generating soul
growth. Just because a person is working, he is not necessarily growing; but if
he is constantly being challenged by new techniques, new things to learn, he
does grow. I personally do not think that a person should stick to just one
trade forever. Once he becomes sufficiently adept at one trade, he should
move onto something else to keep on growing. As it actually works out, most
people in the world today have about three major
avocations in the course of a lifetime. Sometimes people seem to be born into
certain types of situations such as a farmer. But, even a farmer may start
out by being a plain dirt farmer, then go into cattle raising, and then into
dairying — three different avocations quite specialized from one another. If
you have spare time, study. Sitting in front of the television is all too many peopled idea of leisure these days. I can see where
young people are dropping out mainly because the parents dropped out a long
time ago and they are just following the example. We in The Stelle Group think that the kind of
challenges we are involved with are making us grow; and instead of making us
tired, the challenges inspire us. We generally try to inspire young people to
go to college by explaining that education is one way to get ahead. A genuine
education always keeps a person on his toes, keeps him sharp and challenges
him. When you have something to overcome, a difficulty to prove yourself
against or a trial to work through, then you win, you triumph! It seems that people will do almost anything in order to have
something to triumph over for the sense of joy that it brings. The
successful completion of difficult work engenders confidence and satisfaction
that you are a man among men. You then have managed to accomplish something
that other people can see and know you are okay, and are
needed, and that what you can do is useful and valuable to the world. People who are successful in this world have
made their job fun for themselves. When what you are doing is fun, you are
really in an enviable position. You do not have to divide your life between
what you have to go through to make a dollar so that you
can go out and do the things that you want to do. It all becomes one
thing. Every self-made millionaire became one because his work was the thing
that he found the most fun. Work is work, but it can either
be fun or it can be a drag. It depends entirely upon your own view of
it. (04-1973) |
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