HOW DO YOU GET ON WITH YOURSELF?

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 308, 30 December 1939, Page 2

HOW DO YOU GET ON WITH YOURSELF?

Meet yourself in these paragraphs, but It will be your own fault if you’re dissatisfied with what you see. The article is from You. London.

£JAN you spend a day alone? Have you plenty of interesting things to do and think about, or do you get miserable and mopish? Can you enjoy a sunset, a movie or a good dinner by yourself if your companion hasn't turned up? If you can, then you’re on the way to being properly adult and self-reliant. Can you make up your own mind? When any small decision has to be made, do you ask the nearest person, regardless of whether they have any expert knowledge on the subject? Do you decide what to do quickly, then get on with the job and feel content that you are able to settle your own affairs? Do you trust your own judgment? When you have to weigh up somebody else, do you consider all the points carefully and keep an open mind until you have proved your first impressions? Or do you jump to conclusions and then trot round gossiping with your friends and acquaintances, varying your conclusions with each person that you meet? Can you stick to a judgment even when someone you admire holds a contrary opinion, that is, until you are proved wrong? Can you do your own work? And enjoy it? Yes, there are hound to be times when you get fed-up, everyone does. But, on the whole, do you feel that you are efficient and that you earn your keep? Do you feel that you do your particular bit of work as win be your own fault if you’re The article is from You, London well as anyone else could? There is bound to be room for improvement, but do you feel that you are capable of getting on in this way? Can you accept disappointment? Or

goes wrong can you decide, quickly, the next best thing to do, make some constructive decisions and not waste time feeling sorry for yourself? Can you behave naturally to strangers? Or do you put on a new “social face” and work hard to impress them? If you find it necessary to pretend to be what you are not; to be more cultured, monied or better connected than you are, then you are not satisfied with yourself. Can you admire other people? Can you give them credit for the good work they do, or must you be always pick, ing holes in them and belittling their efforts? If you are sure that your own work and character are as good as you can make them, then you won’t be mean aoout that cf ethers. Your behaviour and criticism of others depend on your opinion of yourself. You dislike in them what you are ashamed of and are hiding in yourself.

Are you afraid of old age? Do you feel that people will no longer want you when physical attraction and capacity for hard physical work havi passed? Or do you know that your mental gifts, sympathy and kindly outlook will always make you a welcome friend anywhere and always? Are you making the most of yourself? Are you using your gifts, both physical and mental, to their best advantage? Are you always learning new things about the world and the people in it? Are you making yourself into the kind of person you would like to be with? Remember you have to live with yourself, so if you don't like yourself very much just now, well you’d better start and do something about it.