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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 5 (November 2, 1931)

Laughter and After

Laughter and After.

There is a destiny that shapes our ends, but there is also a hilarity that sharpens our beginnings. Destiny is the effect to-morrow of the cause to-day, or the advance agent of Life's Circus. A laugh to-day waits round the corner until its owner catches up with it. Gloom is the hall-mark of cold feet or mud on the passage of time, but merriment is the elevator to the beauty parlours or the escalator to ecstacy. The world sometimes mistakes solemnity for solidity, and silence for prescience, when the goods are not in the van. The human mind is a goods van. There is always something fresh being dumped into it, and something else being shot out of it to make room for something fresh. We take in the goods and deliver the goods, but if the door is kept locked we have no goods to deliver because we have failed to take them in. Everyone takes a run up the main trunk of Life, but those who do it with a closed van might as well have rusted on the home siding.