Evening star., 1933-03-30
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEVELL,

Blessed are the people in this world
who make you feel as If you amounted
to something, after all.
CHEEKY IS their greeting, their con-
versation kindly, their attitude helpful,
But, more than all that. they accept
you for what you are, they ask for no
change In you.
You have place. with them, just as
you are.
Now, there is a great satisfaction in
that, to feel that, just how one Is, is
all right!
There are so many sad wights de-
manding that one accept their mode
Of life and living as the model, that one
live as they live, eat what they eat,
engage in the games they prefer, take
up the hobbies they take up.
They conceal their smiles poorly, as
they contemplate the sorry mess, ac-
cording to their viewpoint, which other
people are making Of their lives.
No doubt their attitude is what the
dealers in such words call superiority
complex; by criticizing others, all the
time, they manage to put themselves
at q point of perfection which they
really do not reach, except in their own
minds.
Even when one sees through their
little game, however, their sheer as
sumption Is worrying to the man or
woman who is sensitive to such things.
Continual criticism, even from fool,
Is wearying.
How pleasant it is, then. to meet one
of these truly happy souls who manages
to infuse you with the spirit of peace.
You are all right, with them, just as
you are.
What you stand for. whatever 1t is,
Is something which they are glad to
accord a place in the sun, although 1t
do. or like, themselves.
Here is this athletically inclined fell
low, who. nevertheless, values this little
bookworm here.
Whenever he sees him, he greets him
with hearty handclasp and BEAM
ing smile.
He makes the bookworm feel that
bookworms, after all, have place In
society.
II the same man met a coal HEAVIER,
he would accept him-aS coal HEAVIER
and when he left him the man would
walk with new spring to his step.
Coal beavers, he would tell himself,
il not in so many words, really have a
place in world as curiously and as
completely organized as this one, in
which king and HEAVIER alike live.
1t will be realized that this is a mat
ter which involves great deal more
than inferiority compleXes, so called.
The basic consideration Is Sensitivity,
call 1t what one pleases. Sensitivity is
a group Of considerations, rather than
q pet name of psychologists. 1t means
more than complex, because 1t is
human.
There are, broadly speaking, two
sorts of human beings, those who are
genuinely Indifferent to the opinions of
others, and those who are sensitive to
their opinions.
The first group is relatively small. for
many who would claim to belong to it
really do not do so, but are as sensi-
tive as any. only they will not admit it,
even to themselves.
The majority OF mankind. it may be
realized, falls into the second grouping.
Every one wants to have the good
opinion, as it is called. of other persons
and the strangest part Of 1t is that they
crave this appreciation, whether the
person who is supposed to hold the
opinion has any brains or not!
That is the way human nature is.
How much better is it to concentrate
on such fellow human beings as pos
sess, by nature, the happy faculty of