Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-03-12
TAUGHT HIM MUCH
Homely Philosophy Of. Great
Benefit to Worried Man.
"Vgrestle With Your Troubles as They
Come Along, ard Don't Worry"
Is About as Good Advice as
Can Be Given.

1--WE all have our troubles" said MI.
Goslington. "A very capable young
friend of mine who has a some
what responsible position was bothered
by the ways and actions of his sub
ordinates and co-workers and SUI
periors. So he went to friend of his,
an older and hisher-up man, for adj
vice and comfort. :
1.-THE older man smiled over this re-
quest. The younger, man had>alWays
imagined that the older man in his
higher-up place was free from all wor-
ries; that he could do as he liked and
boss things to suit himself, but now
he heard the older man saying, smil-
ingly:
"Good gracious: You think you are
the only man that has troubles. You
think have no trouble to bother me.
Why,>if you should take your troubles
and multiply them by about ten you
would begin to understand about
where l stand in the trouble way. We
all have our troubles
(Which was of course the simple
truth. The man doesn't live who is
absolutely his ownsboss. Low or high,
there is somebody above him or below
him or around him to whom he must
defer. My young friend had an idea
that when he got higher up he would
be free, unhampered; that he could
| do as he liked. But the minute he
came to talk with that older friend
he realized, and never after forgot,
that no man in the world. is free to
do as he likes. This. older and high
er-up friend had superiors still over
him and men of the same rank and
subordinates ito wrestle with; he had,
as the saying is, troubles of his own.
"But his talk with the older man
was great relief and comfort to my
young friend just the same. In fact,
it seemed somehow to- broaden him
right away. He smiled as he~thought
to himself noW that he was not the
only man i'm the world with troubles;
there were. Others. And his own bur-
dens seemed lighter as he thought OF
the loads that other people were car
rying. And it helped him whole lot
TO realize, as he now did, how his older
friend carried his troubles. He put up
good front always. II he was Wor-
ried or distressed he never showed it,
He kept his nerve, he was never up
set; in fact, he never let his troubles
really worry him, ms far as you could
see, and he was always considerate of
other people and their feelings and
ready and able to look at things from
other peoples point of view as well
as from his own.
Gas he. dwelt upon these things my
young friend was, helped enormously,
and he realized now, OF course, that it
was these qualities and characteristics
That had always attracted him to, the
older man, and he firmly resolved as
far as he could TO pattern after him,
which he has ever since done.
"My young friend is now older. by u
few years than wien he had this en-
Tightening. experience and he has also
advanced considerably since then and
he still is coming along strong.
"'Ever have any troubles come your
way nowadays? I said to him. the
other day.
"Why, yes,' he said, right smil.
ingly, we do have our little troubles
now and then and we do our level
best with them as they come along,
but we positively refuse to worry over
EN-
"And really think my young friend
is coming as near to that as anybody
possibly can" ~.