But it does.
It matters whether you are loving or unloving. It matters whether you are kind or ugly in temper. It matters whether you are at the foot of the class or its head. It matters whether you are neat or just a disorderly heap. It matters whether you are a sunbeam or a shadow. It matters whether you are growing up straight or with a lean.
It makes a big difference.
Of course it matters, silly child!
If it didn't matter, God would never have given us so many lessons in nature and history and biography.
Nearly everything in God's great world is telling us that—
"Life is real,
Life is earnest."
And it has an end; and it will be a poor end for her or for him who starts by saying, "It's no matter!"
There was a fellow once did that in a great Rugby game. He failed, and the team lost the match and the trophy.
A slip may seem small, but we can slip and fail, and do slovenly work once too often—and lose the game of life!