Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-12-15
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Overcoming Trouble
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

"Build for yourself strongbox,
Fashion each part with care;
when It's AS strong rs your heart can
Put ali your troubles there;
Hide IN y oil thought OF your failures
And each bitter cup that YOU q1an;
Lock oil YOU hcartaches within 1t
Then sit on the lid and laugh
II never did people any good to talk
about their troubles. But how many peo-
plc do You know who fail TO get a morbid
sort OF delight out Of living their troubles
over and over again?
IL seems to INC that II Is rather an
Irnoble thing 20 want 60 bother other
people WITH your sorrows. Il ought TO
belittle You in your own eyes to find
yourself forever weakly. sharing with
others your most secret SORROWS. To be
dipnified at ALL sorrow ought to be
scored, and the minute you can talk
about Il. IL becomes rather n petty thing,
such az we'll may he despised By large
sou.cd folk.
Care md worry arc weeds that ought
20 he uprooted from the garden OF your
soul and not watercd by the salt OF tears
and constant attention. N YOU have \
sorrow In your life and focus your at
tenton on e. Il prows rs your sense OF
proportion shrinks. II that sorrow were
hidden away from sight and ignored It
would actually wither In the uncongenial
dark Of forgotten things and come nj last
! 20 be only the weak little ghost OF the
great live palm It once was.
Laughing at trouble isn't as hard as
Il sounds: nor are the people who sug-
gest Il utterly hard-hearted and unsyn-
pathetic. II Is Just n phllosophic and
utiiitaran principle suggested by wise
folk who know that a tooth always aches
most when YOU have nothing better to do
! than to think about H.
II YOU can resolutely fashion for your
| self large chest Of forgetfulness and.
playing the gnme with yourself honestly.
can consign TO II all your regrets for the
lost yesterdays and all your sufferings
because OF mistakes and unkindness and
mischance. you are in n fair way to live
n the happy possibilities of bright to-
morrow rather than in tho bitter mem
oties OF gloomy yesterday,
What possible good did It over do any
body to sit and remember how painful
the oonvalescence from serious illness
was? In fact. when aid It ever fail TO
retard convalescence for the patent to
recall and recount ali the painful horrors
OF his sickness2 $50.
Life Ia very frequently a convalescenee
from painful operation or serious illness
and getting well Is closely related TO
cea sing to be sick ForEetting the un-
pleasant symptoms and concentrating on
possibilities OF Toy has a lot TO do with
recovery. And why any one under the
sun should wilfully and wantonly retart
the period when he can go out into tho
sunshine OF life and be happy Is almost
more than any sane person can compre
bend.
To forget. first of ali make up YOU
mind TO forget Then look your trouble
square In the face and say to II, 'Yo'
aren't 80 very bad after ALT Anyway
you are over and done with. And you're
certainly not important enough 10 re
member"
After that has been said a few times
you will believe yourself and the un
wanted and neglected memory OF wha
was once SO painful will stink away int
oblivion.
When you have smiled few times a
the good things OF life and beckoned e
them In friendly fashion, you viii actually
be able TO laugh honestly and simply
not at what hurt You once. but with ;
full haith in the fact that It can hurt yol
no longer,