THE HAPPY INVALID.
“There is no disputing the fact that numbers of men and vwomen carrying burdens of sickness, never to be laid down on this side of the grave, are intensely (happy, incomprehensible as this may be to the person in normal circumstance who is often intensely miserable, says Mr. Leonard B. Smith 'in a contribution, “written from an invalid's chair," to the Daily Chronicle.. “Undoubtedly the secret of happiness is .achievement —conquest. When a man has finished digging his garden he is happy--£or-
a time. The author is happy when lie has written the concluding sentence of his book; the business man when lie has negotiated a successful deal, and the sportsman when he has created a fresh record. There is no happiness without achievement, and no achievement without conquest-. Then where lies the opportunity for the man stretched in a spinal carnage, or for him who must grope his way through continual night? It may be that the sole, task allowed him, is the conquest of self —the struggle to rise above the affliction which is over striving to render him irritable and morose. It is a task calling foir all his mettle, and the reward of victory is the happiness at which others may well wonder. Achievement is essential; and many a sufferer has built -up a spirit so. in?, doubtable that be has found an occupation within the scope of his limitations. iSuch a triumph must bring intense happiness seeing that he has, of his own determination and perseverance, converted uselessness into usefulness. Some of the world's greatest work has been done by such as these.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40016, 29 October 1929, Page 2
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271THE HAPPY INVALID. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40016, 29 October 1929, Page 2
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