SELF-PITY.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 6, 3 July 1930, Page 12

SELF-PITY.

Self-pity is the: act of feeling: sorry for yourself. You sit down and* weep becatise you are not appreciated, or loved, or worshipped as you feel you should* be.

Not being appreciated, you, cast about for.reasons. It is; only a step then to find tSiem. You ate hated—folks are plotting against • you; ;

When you pity .yourself, you begin to think of yourself as the centre'of erea^ tion, a sort of central sun around, which" thie stars revolve—or should^ You are out of focus.

Unconsciously, the self-pity; habit brings indifference, then pity, t>hen the conteni.pt of everybody with whom the indivdTial associates. r

We would better take t?he. knocks that life sends and regard them as lessOns;- liife is a struggle against our own limitations. If we pity anyone, let us pity the people who-have to live witih. us.

It is a great privilege id live, to engage in\ tlhe straggle of einstenee, to foght for that which. is right, and if 'need-fee to suffer and dis for it. ■

To have a pain is; proof that you aTe alivfc. Dead people have no paJto* t Those wSio are alive are bound to suffer. TMs is a- part of the great education of

evefy individual ■who really lives and -.achieves. And to live, in-itself, is an achievement. . To go down and acknowledge you are dawn is the only defeat. "When you indulge in self-pity, you are on the down grade. --■ Man's business is to surmount, to rise, and when he begins to help 'him-: ; self he grows strong, and everybody i- will help him. ' ■:.. Self-pity. »is the first symptom of paramoia, and paranoia is a disease of the tiiain that comes from continually thinking of one's own self and dwelling on slights and fancied insults. • If we fail in an undertaking, we Talame others. If we succeed, we take: all the credit to OiUTselves. It is vory iniich easier to,blame someone else than to, face. tht3 issue; and so we hide our blunders, behind an excuse, evodve iself■p^ty, .explain the matter to anyone who will listen, to get them, if possible, to help feel sorry for us.. Selfrpity evolves hypocrites who pretend, that they feel hearts, they feel less for us for everyv whine and every ■hearts, they think less for us for every -whine and every groiwl. .Time is the great adjuster of all and in the course of. even a short lifetime we get all the love tlhat is due to us. That is to say, we get all that we give. j- TDake _your knocks, aDd don't whine. There axe quiet and safety, and rest and silence, 'down at the bottom where we are headed for, and there will be plenty of time to enjoy them, too. Let/s be grateful that we are alive. There's work to do. 'Get up, and at it!