Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1920 — TAUGHT HIM MUCH [ARTICLE]

TAUGHT HIM MUCH

Homely Philosophy of Great b Benefit to Worried Man. - -,t- ■■ * — - -r;-* "Wrestle With Your Troubles as They Come Along, and Don’t Worry," Is About as Good Advice as Can Be Given. . p ... "We all have our troubles,” said Mr. Goslington. “A very capable young friend of mine who has a somewhat responsible position was bothered by the ways and actions of his subordinates and co-workers and superiors. So he went to a friend of his, an older and higher-up man, for advice and comfort. "The older man smiled over this request. The younger man had always Imagined that the older man in his higher-up place waa free from all worries ; that he could do as he liked and boss things to suit himself, but itow he heard the older man saying, smilingly : “'Good gracious! You think you are the only man that has troubles. You think I have no trouble to bother me. Why, if you should take your troubles and multiply them by about ten you would begin to understand about where I stand in the trouble way. We all have our troubles.’ “Which was of course the simple triith. The man doesn’t live who is absolutely his own boss. Low or high, there is somebody above him or below him or around him to whom he must defer. My young friend had an idea that when he got higher up he would be free, unhampered; that he could do as he liked. But the minute he came to talk with that, older-friend he realized, and never after forgot, that no man in the world is free to do as he likes. This older and high-er-up friend had superiors still over him and men of the same rank and subordinates to wrestle with; he had, as the saying is, troubles of his own.\ “But his talk with the older man was a great relief and comfort tomy young friend just the same. In fact. It seemed somehow to broaden him right away. He smiled as he thought to himself now that he was not the only man in the world with troubles; there were others. And his own burdens seemed lighter as he thought of the loads that other people were carrying. And it helped him a whole lot to realize, as he now did, how his older friend carried his troubles. He put up a good front always. If he was worried or distressed he never showed it. He kept his nerve, he was never upset; in fact, he never let his troubles really worry him, as far as you could see, and he was always considerate of other people and their feelings and ready and able to look at things from other people’s point of view as well as from his own. “As he dwelt upon these things my young friend was helped enormously, and he realized now, of course, that it was these qualities and characteristics that had always attracted h|m to the older man, and he firmly resolved as far as he could to pattern after him, which he has ever since done. “My young friend is now older by a few years than when he had this enlightening experience and he has also advanced considerably since then and he still Is coming along strong. I “ ‘Ever have any troubles, come your way nowadays?’ I said to him the other day. “‘Why, yes,’ he said, right smilingly, T we do have oOT~ltttte'troubles' now and then and we do our level best with them as they come along, but we positively refuse to worry over ’em.’ “And really I think my young friend is coming as near to that as anybody possibly can.”