Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-09-04
ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
Make the Best of Every Thing aud 70
Are Sure to BE Happy.

Make the Best of Every Thing and You
Are Sure to BE Happy.
There are great many persons in
pursuit of happiness who fail to succeed
because they are unable to take pleas
ure: as they come, but are forever
reaching out for something beyond
them. While it is folly to pursue life
OF mere selfish qualification, it is the
duty of all to try to enjoy themselves
In this world; to be contented and happy
where Heaven has placed them. There
are many people who miss the pleas
ures OF life because they are Indifferent
to the pleasures of nature. They do
not stop, as Ruskin says, ito watch the
corn grow or the blossom set" but rush
on in feverish haste in pursuit of
money, as If that were certain road to
enjoyment The morning song of the
thrush, the CLEAN of the humming-
birds plumage, the beauty of lakes and
the majestic grandeur of mountains
bring no pleasure to some natures
Many people lose all enjoyment in life
because they are hypercritical. They
are forever in search of flaws and in
PROJECTIONS instead OF looking at the
best side. No picture or work of art
gives them genuine pleasure, because
they are not content with it. They find
some slight error which no one else
possibly has discovered, and it over.
balances their enjoyment of noble eff
fort of the artist. A taste of genuine
art is one of the most noble and refin-
ing of which man is capable. 1t is an
inspiration to noble nature to higher
living and better thinking. Many low
ers OF music seem so critical in their
appreciation that they lose all pleasure
in any performance that they attend.
A discriminating taste is an ex-
celent gift but this is a
different thing from hyper
critical taste. Many persons fail to en-
JOY their homes for the same reason.
They always find more needs that can
not be filled than pleasures to enjoy.
Nothing, in short, gives them true en-
joyment for any length of time. One of
the most frequent causes of dissatisfac-
tion is fickleness of taste. Nothing
seems of any value to some people after
it is fairly in their grasp. The most
beautiful gem afar off becomes COM
mon pebble in their hands. A bird in
the bush seems far more beautiful than
one in the hand. Such people can never
be happy until they learn to take pleas
ure in what they have. 1t is the small
things of life, enjoyments of the hour,
that make up the sum of human hap
piness. Those who do not find pleas
ures enough to be happy in the
position in which they are
placed, need seek no farther. In short,
enjoyment comes from within; it is the
disposition of the man, not his sur
roundings, that makes or mars his life.
Put the disconnected laborer, who COM
plains against the law of Heaven that
he should earn his bread by the sweat
of his brow, in palace, and he would
still find cause for grumbling. There
are not enough Mark Tapleys among us,
who try to be cheerful under difficult
ties. What pleasure it is to know
happy people who make the best of
every thing; people whose fires always
burn brightly and cheerfully, and whose
daily fare is thrice blessed because it is
taken with a cheerful spirit.-N. Y
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