THE USELESSNESS OF WORRYING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 21 November 1913, Page 2

THE USELESSNESS OF WORRYING.

Worrying never benefited anybody. Can it, by any ipo&sibility, > change the existing condition of affairs, banish gloom, or make misfortunes more i bearable? Far from this being the case, it plunges us into deeper depression and misery, jaundices cur views of life, and by perpetually hugging our griefs to our bosom it ren'ders ns not only utterly unfit to carry on the battle of life, but a nuisance to our friends and acquaintances. It is care that kills, and the man or woman who can throw care to the does soon becomes indispensable to their friends. Care is worry, pure..-and simple, and the troubles we have to bear are, in the majority of oases, hard without the additional trouble of perpetually brooding about them. All our efforts, then, should be directed to overcome the difficulties which oppress us, and if fuese efforts are successful, so much the better; but if they are not, there is nothing gained by going through life with a miserable and dejected mien and a manner that venders our society distressingly distasteful to our friends. No matter in what class of society we may move, the world very soon tires of persons who are perpetually bemoaning their j fate and pouring their woes into ears more or less sympathetic. We all have our troubles, some greater, ■some loss, but if we look them steadily in the face, bravely grapple with them, and brace ourselves to meet them, wo shall be the better able to surmount them than by placidly giving way to despair and lamenting our fate to all with whom we may be brought into contact. j