The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-01-26

81 am Just going 10 stop saying
am too tired to go here or 1t is too
much bother to go there" said
woman the other day. IL was rather
amazed she went on, "in looking
,ack over last year to see how Few
affairs of any kind had been to. ]
Just stayed home all day, day In
and out | was invited enough.
was asked to go motoring times In
Vulnerable by friends. I was invited
to Join theater parties. | was asked
to dinners and luncheons and teas
But / just got into rut OF declining
II always seemed too much bother.
But 1t Just dawned on me the other
day that / had not been to the thea
ter for nearly year, that whole
| new set of fashions in motoring logs
had come out aid was not aware OF
It; in fact, that had been setting
limitations for myself in a good many
directions. l have decided 1t Is not
a good thing to do. This year l am
| going to keep right up with the pro
eession and enjoy every step OF the
march, too"
Why should one set limltationsY
Yet how many of us, like this wom-
an, do 1t, and in fact, are doing It
right now.
We get into rut of some sort and
then when any project outside Of that
rut comes up, we say cant
If we are in business and a friend
says, lets got to the theater,' our
cant" takes the form Of 81 am too
tired. And when | stay out late at
night, am sleepy next day" And
SO we gradually step into the habit
of not going out in the evenings. We
limit life to work.
If we are housekeeper and some
one wants us to go off for a picnic
4 or a motor trip, cant" chirps up.
There's nobody to get the meals"
or Its my day to sweep" And our
friends motor away to enjoy outdoors
and we slip into monotonous rou-
tine of housework which when unen
livened by anything else dulls our
higher faculties.
Sometimes the opportunity comes
to- join a club or class for study or
reading and again we set limitations
for ourselves by saying, "Oh, | am
too DID, or Il have no memory"
In some way OF other, many of us
put up bars that shut us into little
narrow wo ID when there is no rea-
son whatever except the limitations
we ourselves impose, why we should
not have fuller and more enjoyable
life than the one we are living?
This is not meant that one should
be pleasuring or idling to the detri-
ment of the work or responsibilities
that are ours. That sort of thing is
In another class altogether. But there
are those of US who might get much
more out OF life than we do. II We
did not set these limitations upon
ourselves.
And these limitations we impose
not only shut out much Of the 10Y OF
E living, but they affect us In other
4 ways. 1t is a we'll known physical
and psychological fact that when we
Q shut ourselves into our little groove
: we get in time irritable, nervous, OF
dull. The mental limitations we have
a set react upon us physically. Life IL
l an active force. The law Of 1t Is
growth. And when we try to stoT
Q this growth, to shut 1t in, compress
t 1t. sooner or later this unnatural con
J. dition will manifest itself in disor
i der Of some sort.
So aside from the pleasure we are
denying ourselves by setting thes'
limitations We are making conditions
O that sooner or later will bring III
trouble.
IL hOt cS "Ciip ~
20 initiate this woman's example ant
take a look backward to see II WI
" are forming the habit of limiting life
" Are we becoming content with tn
% rut formed by our necessary wor|
70 and duties and refusing to step out
side into the larger world OF legitim
ate pleasure and development? II w
find we are, let's break the habi
before 1t gets fixed too firmly, Let
accept the invitations that come on
" way. Let's enjoy the simple pleas
ure that can be ours for the taking
Let's even make an effort at time
to add that to our life that will max
It happier and of larger vision. =
Barbara Boyd.