Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1919 — Overcoming Our Failures [ARTICLE]

Overcoming Our Failures

Discouragement is a Menace to Happiness

There are times when notwithstanding our efforts we do not seem to make any headway with our ambitions, says a writer. We set high goals for ourselves and we make the attempt to gain them, but even though we plod perseveringly toward them we seem-to meet only with obstacles and disappointments. Then it is that we begin to feel that discouragement which is bound to react to our undoing w’e pull ourselves up sharply. Life is not a bed of roses for anyone, for all that we envy the apparent ease and happiness of some of those with whom we come in con-, tact. They, too, have their trials and their disappointments of which we know nothing, and who knows but that they bravely hide their real feeligns under a show of prosperity and happiness? No one likes Jo wear his heart upon his sleeve, and from the proudest to the humblest, from the richest to the poorest, there is ever uppermost the determination to hide the disappointment of ambitions unattained and hopes unfulfilled. It is only through earnest effort that w’e overcome our failures, whether they affect our spiritual or our worldly desires,' and it 4s for this reason that discouragement is such a menace to happiness.