Our Lady of Lourdes High School - Knight Yearbook (Marinette, WI)

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iifqi A ,- 25521490 CASTLES IN THE AIR Air castles, peacefully floating amid Heecy white clouds--what a picture of delight they bring to mind. We often hear castles in the air defined as vision- ary and fanciful creations of the imagination, as theories or notions usually strange or impractical, as baseless schemes or projects having no solid founda- tion, as effortless thought, or as day dreams. Since this subject can be defined in such a variety of ways, we must, after a careful consideration of circumstances and individuality, draw our own conclusions. Dreams they may be, but kings and queens, knights of old, as well as the present knights, the laborer, the peasant- all had their air castles, their dreams, by no means in vain-since they spell com- fort and pleasure to the weary and sad. We frequently hear the statement: If you wish to know what a man is, ex- amine his air castlesf' From this we naturally infer that every man indulges in day dreams or builds his air castles. VVhy, then, do so few people show their castles in the air? Are they ashamed of the contrast between their real and imag- inary selves? It may be that they fear the ordeal of comparison for the real per- son. Not that they wish to be other people, but they desire to be rid of their dis- abilities. And, as, in real life, this is often difficult or impossible, they shut their castle doors behind them, as did the lords of medieval times when fortifying their castles. In an instant, all their fetters fall from them, and they are just as happy and powerful as they wish to be. A few lines from Adelaide Proctor's poem, Dream Life, may serve as a suitable illustration here: Half my lifel live a beggar, ' Ragged, helpless and aloneg But the other half a monarch, With my courtiers round my throne. Half my life is full of sorrow, I-Ialf of joy, still fresh and new: One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true. While I live a wretched beggar, One bright hope my lot can cheerg Soon, soon thou shalt have thy kingdom, Brighter hours are drawing near. So you see my life is two-fold, Half a pleasure, half a grief: Thus all joy is somewhat tempered, And all sorrow finds relief. Children, however, never hesitate to expose their castles to the view of all who are interested in their youthful dreams, their fairy castles peopled with the strangest fancies. They never tire of revelling in fairy and elfland, in adventures of land and sea. They live like Alice in Wonderland in rarest contentment and JOY- Some air castles may indicate future greatness, or may reveal wonderful depths of character. Columbus, for instance, as a boy sat watching the ships sail VN g . in '- ' - gig- 5 .-X M .X an .2-Simi-tru 2-It-. sagem' ft Page 64