The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1906-12-29
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Journal of the American Medical assoc
cation, lays much stress on hurry and
worry as leading causes of nervous ex-
naustion. He has this to say:
Learn 10 hurry little and worry not
at all An illustration consists in the
fatigue from the hurry to.eatch a.trairl,
Which is out ~ofs--aTt. proportion 20 ethe
physical effort expended Individuals
are too much like the modern telephone
sign, Always on duty" For hurried
and worried business or hurried and
worried pleasure. hurry alone or worry
alone. are poisonous to the normal
American combination OF worried hurry
is deadly. Each brings into action the
worst features OF the other"
Of course, every one who stops to
think will agree With the author, but
how few are able to follow his good
advice? Worry is only the extra work,
the increased wear and tear, for which
we are never paid. Ii always binders
but never wins. 1t means incapacity
for anticipated efforts, and yet we con-
stantly blame circumstances rather
than our individual selves The man
who Is always ready and takes time to
be sure before he starts never need
hurry or worry. How few can do this
consistently! Then comes the break
down which is SO often charged to mere
overwork. In ninety-nine cases in a
hundred it is the. worry. always use
less, that eventually weakens and kills.
The gloomy foreboding not only saps
the energy of all valiant endeavor to
conquer difficulties. but cheats us in the
end by proving the old adage that "the
expected never happens" If we COM
pare notes we can easily prove the COM
fr-1,f I, faf
consulate man who for years feared the
death of his invalid wife could have
known she would survive him for more
than quarter of a century how much
unnecessary mental suffering would
have spared MIN.
The absolute inutility of worry is the
lesson of ii all. The future as a rule,
is more often a surprise and delight
than a disappointment and discipline
We grieve when we look ahead and
Smile when we look back But with
most people experience counts for moth
ing when new obstacles appear It is
the old story that the last difficulty will
be insurm But each in his
turn soon learns that he cannot control
events. disturb the relations of cause
and effect or alter the immutable laws
of destiny, no matter how strongly he
may yearn to do SO. The only reason
able way TO adjust matters is to wait
until the time comes for the solution of
the dreaded problem.
Mostly, also, we lack the courage,
patience. good judgment and prepared
ress to meet the issues as they arise.
We waste thought, strain nerve and
Danish sleep in anticipation of that
which never transpires. Don't shoot
until they come out" combines lots of.
sound wisdom with no end of good
philosophy. We not. only worry in ad-
vance of the thing. but after it is done,
If we calmly planned our escape and
tried our best what more could have
been done?
A main difficulty is in striving to do.
too much and in overtaxing our capaci-
ties. The strong, steady, self-reliant'
man has no misgivings, but the weak
one mistrusts everything, himself in
clrdcd. He contrives against odds and
worries and hurries, while others eat,
sleep and are merry.
But this is going to be the way with
the average nervous American. 1t was
he. in fact, who invented neurasthenia.
The disease has become a habit With
him, and worry, hurry, restiessness
and irritability are its leading features.
He takes his business home with him,
eats with it, sleeps with it, dreams with
it, 1t is his shadow at the fireside and
ts BILE; it blurs all his pleasures, stands
between him and his family, all be-
cause he must borrow trouble and
mortgage happiness,~ hsslth-and life in
the balance.