Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1912 — Laugh at Your Burden. [ARTICLE]

Laugh at Your Burden.

Most of us are bending under the burden of some great load. It may be care, it may be disappointment, it may be injustice, it may be physical pain or spiritual discouragement, but it is heavy. Often it seems heavier than we can bear and we cry out and protest. These burdens are very real, but really they are not half as big and heavy as we make them, declares a writer in the Universallst Leader. We have had them upon our shoulders, entirely out of our sight, so long that they have been magnified by imagination or weariness or impatience, until they seem unbearable. Now, then, whatever your burden may be, however long you have been carrying it, and however proud you may have become of your self-imposed martydom just take your burden down and look at it honestly, and you will be surprised how it has dwindled away while you have been magnifying it in your mind. Look at it frankly and fearlessly and in nine cases out of ten will your tears be turned to laughter and your sighing into song.