The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-03-21
Get Rid of the "rired Feeling. ,,-spring

Get Rid of the ''Tired Feeling ."-Spring
was public benefactor in one way-itS re.
sponsibility for that tired feeling" 1t is an
exceedingly convenient ailment, and like chari-
ty, covers multitude OF sins, says the Balti-
more american. Now, however, that science
has discovered the laziness germ, and that
lack of energy is disease and not a fault,
that tired feeling" need not be called on so
often to excuse the want of energy which peo-
pie find, especially in the early part of the
year. so much easier to indulge than to resist.
Yet when one considers all that is lost bv
that tired feeling" the opportunities which
never come, not because they do not exist, but
because we are too fatigued to seek them; the
chances missed that come in our way, but at
which we too feebly grasp or too idly hold;
the successes which pass on to others because
of that Micaw Der tendency to wait for some
thing to turn up; it is wonderful how large
sway it exercises over the majority of the
world and the blindness it brings upon its vic
Tins. Nor is it a vice confined to individuals
whole communities suffer from it. Cities, as
we'll as men and women, remain sunk in a rut
of listlessness and allow prosperity and great
ness to pass by on the other side, because of
reluctance to make the effort to secure the
prizes they offer.
Americans are not often accused of want of
energy, and yet there is too little of it in our
national life There is feverish activity, of
restlessness, of rush and wear and tear, and
still very little real energy The listlessness of
the spring is natures warning that our blood
needs to be vitalized and purified, to be made
the great stream of health and life, and that
in proper energy and activity this health and
life are TO be gained. In the same way more
health, more moral oxygen, is needed in our
social and national life. We need the good,
rich, red blood to feed the brain and develop
strong ideas to clear away the delicacy of
weakness and languor which disincline to the
effort, the energy which forces the exceptional
men and women to take the initiative, to leave
the usual because it is the easiest and seek out
the best through all obstacles.
1t was not that tired feeling that civilized
the world, elevated humanity, conquered en-
pires and made discoveries which have altered
the whole aspect of human life. And the
remedy for it lies in work-hard, earnest, con-
scientious work with brain or hand, as the
case may be, but work requiring effort and
thought, not the mere work of habit, which
never leaves the beaten path. 1t seems para
dox but it is true that lazy man may work
very hard; it is the kind of work. the man.
ner in which it is done, not so much the work
ITSELF or the difficulty of it. which marks his
industry. We should be filled with bouyancy,
life and spirits with the feeling that life is
good thing in its mere living, at this young,
fresh springtime of the year. There is no
'tired feeling about the trees and the plants;
they are busily and theoretically putting out
shoots and absorbing all the sunshine and
pure air they can find. 1t might not be above
human pride to take lesson from the little
green teachers we see all about us.