LOOKING AT THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 12, 12 November 1908, Page 38

LOOKING AT THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS

Some are always looking for the dark side. • Such generally find it. • The pessimist said to the optimist, who had exclaimed, ' It-JA beautiful day,' ' Ah, yes, that may be,' but it is raining sonfrewhere.' One of the cheery kind, a good old woman, who looked for the bright side, - said to one who remarked, ' Well, grandma, I notice you have only two teeth,' ' 'Es, 'tis true, but I thank God that they are forninst each other.' An old" fable relates to the two water-buckets in a well. These buckets were connected with each other by a rope which passed 6ver a pulley, so that when one bucket was going down into the water the other was coming out. The story "is that one of- these buckets fell into a settled melancholy because, as it remarked, ' I notice that no matter how full I come up, I always go down empty.' The other bucket was always cheerful, saying : ' I n"a"ve-a4ways ob- " served that no matter how empty I go down, I always come up full.' Look at the bright side. A priest asked an old woman who was about to die : ' Well, grandma, what have you learned in your life?' ' I have learned,' she said, ' that I, like others, have worried about a great many things that never happened.'