face trigésima terceira - Dia Mundial do Escutismo

Não podia deixar passar este dia sem o referir numa face... afinal é 'apenas e tão somente' um Movimento com 28 milhões de faces em todo o Mundo! Nem mesmo o facto de ontem ter sido empurrado literalmente para uma rotunda por um camião de porcos, em pleno Montijo, e ter ficado com o carro com um novo visual do lado direito, estilo 'crash and tow'... enfim, as companhias de seguros que se entendam que é para isso que pagamos pequenas fortunas todos os anos!
Mas voltando ao Escutismo e ao Dia Mundial que hoje se comemora em todo o Mundo, deixo aqui um pequeno pensamento de B.P. para reflectirmos o que significa este movimento mundial para cada um de nós...

"When one has passed the 75th milestone and has got to that stage of life when you think twice before deciding whether it is now worth while to order a new evening coat, it is allowable for one to look back along the road one has travelled.
Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal to them some of the joys by the way which they might otherwise miss?
The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth.
The warning that one would give, therefore, is that it is well not to fritter it away on things that don't count in the end; nor on the other hand is it good to take life too seriously as some seem to do. Make it a happy life while you have it.
That is where success is possible to every man. Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like.
But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness. Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."