Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-12
WHAT IS YOUR
WORTH TO WORLD
Own Fault if There Is No
Place For You in Scheme
of Life
BY Beatrice Fairfax

$50 long as we love we serve; so
long as we are loved by some one,
would almost say that we are in
dispensable: and no man is useless
while he has friend. "--Robert Louis
Stevenson.
There isn't any place for me in
| life. Nobody wants me-" a sad little
| girl l know sighs over and over. To
her mere living is desperate burden
| that she is hardly willing to carry.
To her and all the other morbid souls
who cannot find a place for them
selves In the scheme of existence l
want to talk to-day.
so long as we love we serve" and
the beloved "R. l.. S." whose own
handicap of desperate i'll health did
not prevent him from leaving the
world books which are a veritable
anthology of cheerfulness.
Ii there seems to be no place for
you in life, isn't it because you are
| failing to give out to life any affec-
ton? The girl of whom l speak
looks upon men as ravening wild
beasts. Her attitude toward the
| whole scheme of existence is one of
where to like or admire or approve.
| If she meets some one who is kind
and unselfish she persists In regard
ing that person as a strange excep-
| tion to the general rule. Within
herself she has created a world that
| does not know kindness or love or
unselfishness. And having created
that world she lives in it without try
ing to give anything of help or ser
vice to the tangible world that lies
about her.
She persists in regarding herself
as an unhappy and lonely creature
and this in spite Of the fact that
she possesses one friend whom she
knows she can trust, one friend who
is loyal and kind, one friend for
whom she feels affection and in whom
she can place faith.
1t never occurs to her morbid little
soul that she owes something to that
friendship, that because someone
worth while cares for her she has
even at the moment of her greatest
unhappiness a place in life, and that
she is of use to the world, in fact
and in potentiality, because she has
the friendship Of fine and admirable
soul.
Every human being has a definite
place in the scheme of things. 1t
may be tiny now-perhaps it is going
to be tiny for always, but at least
it is a place; no one else can fill it,
and the individual who is put into it
is link in chain.
Just being alive carries with it
certain responsibility. How does
any Of us know that any other human
being can do the work we find to
hand? How does any of us know
that anyone else can do the work we
shirk In the mere fact that we fail
| to look for it?
None of us can look ahead so much
as an hour; none of us knows what
tomorrow will bring. 1t is possible
| that just by being at given place at
certain time we may prove of in
estimable value in the scheme of
things-but more than this we all
owe to life a state of preparedness.
To educate yourself so that you may
be of service to the world in general
and of value to those who care for
you is part of your duty.
Even though you feel friendless
and unnecessary in the scheme of
things you have no guarantee that
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in world of change. How then
dare you throw away your chance to
make ready to be of value to life?
Being of service to the world is in
itself valuable. 1t Is the RESPONSE
bility of life. No one has a right to
sit around and think how miserable
and lonely and unhappy and abused
he or she is without recognizing the
fact that there are plenty of people
in like state.