And you have a trade, too! Your business is to show every other girl and boy what a girl and boy ought to be; and if you don't care, then you can't show them anything except what they should not be. They should not be like you.
Or think of a girl or boy who is always making a mess of things.
They fail in school, and they grieve their parents, and they are no use to anybody. They get into trouble, and they get others into trouble. They miss the mark and are getting nowhere; and worse than all, they blind their eyes and close their ears. They simply do not care!
A young fellow once went mountain climbing; and I think he thought he was pretty sure-footed. Anyhow, he would take no advice as to dangerous places or how to watch his step, and one careless moment he stepped into a great crack in the ice called a crevasse, and it was twenty years before they found his body, after the slowly moving glacier brought it down to the place where the warmer regions broke off the edges of the ice!
And life has a lot of danger spots too; and it needs care in the step, and to say you don't care may land you sometime in disaster.
In fact, if that spirit stays, I do not see how any one can escape disaster.
"I don't care!"—What does that mean?
It means you would just as soon be bad as good!
It means you would just as soon see things go wrong as right!
It means you would just as soon see things go down as up!