The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-16
What Constitutes Real Happiness

pie who are making great deal of
money, and yet they are dissatisfied,
discontented, unhappy, restless. They
rove about from place to place, try
ling to find pleasure in this thing or
that, but are always disappointed.
They think that if they could only
get somewhere else, than where they
are, could only do something else
than what they are doing, if they
could only go abroad, travel over diff
ferent countries, in a touring car or
lin an automobile, they would be very
happy. Their eyes are always TO-
cused upon something in dreamland
Instead of something in the land of
reality.
They mistake the very nature of
happiness. They put the emphasis
on the wrong things.
The secret of happiness is not in
your fortune, but in your heart. It
does not consist in having, but in
being. 1t is condition of mind.
Real happiness is of such nature
as to satisfy US day by day as we go
along, now or never. Like the mamma
which the children Of Israel tried to
hoard, if we try to keep it for to-
morrow it spoils. There are men
everywhere who can see ease and USE
fulness tomorrow, not today. The
opportunity for doing good they are
too busy to attend to today. They
will neglect friendships today, social
duties today. They postpone all little
charities because they are going to
make some great donation when they
lget little further on, and have a
little more money.
What pitiable failures we see ev-
erywhere-unhappy men who have
gained wealth, which they thought
would be the solvent of all their woes.
Most men seem to think that when
they once get their fortune they can
change their life habits, that they
viii mot be anxious. They do not
realize that they are the victims of
their life habits, that they are no
more likely to get away from these
than leopard is likely to change his
spots.
What a mockery most of us make
of our lives! They are but the bur-
lesuue of the life we were intended
to live. We know that the Creator
intended life to mean more to be in
finitely richer, nobler, happier than
lit is. This brutal game of money
football, which so many Of the human
race are playing, this restless push
ing and crowding for place, this lust
, for power and wealth had no place
in the infinite plan for the race.
A strong resolution to be content
ed every day, to wear cheerful face,
and to speak pleasant word to your
brother Odd Fellow the Rebekah sis
ter, the newsboy, the elevator boy
} and the office boy, to be civil to the
waiter in the restaurant or hotel, to
speak cheerily to the servants, to
everybody with whom we come in
contact, would not only add enjoy
: ment to the ordinary industries of
life, but would also keep the wheels
of our ordinary social activity well
fabricated.
It is a great art to learn to see
the things close to us, to enjoy life
: as we go along.
So do not spoil 1918 by trying to
: crowd 1919 into it; do not try to live
F February in January. Do not be
lean and stingy this month, this year,
because you are aiming for next
month, next year.
Do not trample on the violets and
the daisies today, never seeing the
world of beauty and marvel all about
, you, under your very feet, because
your eyes are fixed on the stars.
Resolve that you are going to en-
ioy the horses and carriage you own
now, and not spend your time riding
! in imagination in the fine automo-
: bile you are going to have next year
that you are going to enjoy the
clothes you have this year, instead Of
anticipating the sealskin coat, the fine
furs, and the elegant dresses you feel
: sure you are going to get in 1919.
Just make up your mind that you
are going to make the most of your
little cottage, the home you have;
that you are going to make it the
happiest, sweetest place on earth to-
day and every day, and that you are
!, not going to try to live in that long
dreamed-of new house until it is fin
ished.
Resolve that you are not going to
mar your life, ruin your happiness
while single, in planning what you
are going to do when married. In