WHAT EVERYBODY WANTS 



Human welfare depends upon the satisfactory use of 

 our time in play and work. We find that very often peo- 

 ple fail to attain satisfactory living because health is de- 

 fective, and many people spend much of their thought and 

 effort in chasing after health, as though that were the 

 most important thing in the world. Very often, too, satis- 

 factory living is impossible because people lack material 

 things, or wealth. Accordingly, many men and women 

 spend their thought and effort in the pursuit of wealth 

 {which is represented to them by money), as though that 

 were the most important thing in the world. 



In the end both the health-seekers and the wealth- 

 seekers fail to find happiness, for that is a bird that cannot 

 be caught or trapped. If everything goes right about the 

 place, it flies in through the open window and makes itself 

 at home ; and it stays just as long as everything does go 

 right— and we ignore it. When we turn our attention to 

 it, away it flies! 



Health is necessary; a certain amount of wealth is 

 necessary ; but neither can be obtained by itself. Neither 

 is possible without some measure of the other, and neither 

 is possible except as we manage our bodies, our resources, 

 and our relations to other people in the right way, that is, 

 except as we work and play properly. 



But we cannot work or play properly if we suffer from 

 ill health or from a lack of material things. It is neces- 

 sary to organize our everyday activities so as to take care 

 of the essentials without being obliged to give too much 

 thought to our health. But to do that requires a great 

 deal of skill and understanding. A part of the understand- 

 ing at least we can get from biology. 



