The Pittsburgh Press (December 17, 1945)
Millett: Appreciate war’s lessons and make them lasting
New Year resolutions should be more worthwhile than ever
By Ruth Millett
Thinking about your New Year’s resolution yet?
Well, how about remembering some of those resolutions you made during the war for the time when it would be over?
Resolutions like:
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Keeping living as simple and as uncomplicated as possible, s as to have time for some of the things you consider really important and worthwhile.
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Refusing ever to get caught again in the rat race of maintaining a boring social life just because it is so much easier to say “Yes” than to say “No, thanks.”
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Worrying over trifles, instead of waiting until you have something real and important to worry about.
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Putting an end to keeping up with the Joneses.
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Being grateful for such blessings as having a family all under one roof.
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Not attaching too much importance to “things” – many of which you have learned you can get along very well without.
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Doing the things you want to do now instead of putting them off.
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Finding time for your family.
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Assuming your share of the responsibility for the way things are run in your community and in your country instead of doing nothing and then blaming somebody else for the resulting mess.
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Making your own private post-war world as satisfying as you used to think it was going to be – instead of slipping back into old ways.
Those are some of the things the war taught you. And you could not do much better by the New Year when it rolls around than to review them and make the same vows in peacetime you made when the war forced you to see things in their true perspective.