A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1929, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

LOOK AHEAD! To he smaller than a mental giant mentally is nothing to he ashamed of, because one lias taken the greatest as one’s model. Rut to be larger than a mental pigmy mentally is nothing to boast about, because one has taken the smallest as one’s model. If a man or a woman is smaller than a mental giant mentally, he or she may still he a large size mentally. Rut ill' a man is much larger than a mental pigmy mentally, he may still he only a dwarf mentally. Yet how many there are in life who consider themselves great chaps liecause they are a Lit lugger than Smith and Jones, forgetting that Smith and Jones may, after all, he very little fellows. The rcaL test of size is to measure oneself against something really hig, and to make a comparison—that is, to see oneself “ in proper perspective,” as the photographers say. Likewise, the man who measures his growth or progress by the distance he lias put between himself and the very little fellows ho lias left behind, instead of the distance lie has to go to catch up witlh the very hig fellows who are far ahead, will have quite- a false idea off his place in the scheme of things. . t, is easy lor the follow* who is always looking behind to think he is leading I he column when lie is really straggling along at the rear ot tlio great army i|hnt is moving ahead. Look forward; measure yourself by t!u* distance you have to go to reach tlio head of the column, where the really big follows arc. Then tako your own measure by them. ft is hotter to be smaller than a giant than to he larger than a dwarf. —M. PRESTON STANLEY