A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1928, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

KEEP SQUARE WITH YOURSELF!

Tru: sal'e rillliiino- () f your business, or your homo, <l<‘|><• tkls upon keeping your business or domestie necoinil “square.” 'I lie sole running of your lilt*, ;iml the security ml' your character, depend upon keeping your life account; “ sipuire.” Keeping “ square ” with ourselves is more importnnt tliuu keeping; •‘Mpmre” with ;inyt!ii u<4 or nnyhody else ill the world uml iilso more dillieiili. We ure so specious with ourselves; we find such reudy excuse's tor our own detections.

\\ he'll we evade, when we niisleml. when wc procrastinate, when we shullle, when wt' do any dishonourable tiling, we are placing a dehit against, ourselves which lias to lie squared some day. ami we are slowly, hut surely, determining our best asset—our char-acter-—by the> destruction df our own self-respect. The man who is conscious that hi' does not deserve his own inspect cannot lone command (lie re'spect of his fellow-men. Mi'ii who wouldn’t dream of breaking laith with their fellow-men do not hesitate to break tfnilli with themselves, forgetful of the fact that, you can’t keep on breaking laith with yourself and keep oil keeping faith with others.

Jlreak faith with yourself long enough, and you will soon break laith with all mi'll ; 'lor the' man who eloesu t kei'p square with himself cannot keep square with others—and it won't be long before everybody knows it. Bogin keeping septa re with yoursell by balancing up each night. Will'll von can truly say at the end of cacti day “I owe mysell nothing.’' you are pretty square* —that is, it you are honest (and very few ol us are with ourselves). And even ilf you're not quite “square” in your balancing up, the fact that you are taking stock each night, and that you know where you failed-broke laith—ld yourself or somebody else down - helps you to get nearer to the day when you can square up with votirself and tell yoursell honestly; “ I’m square—-I owe mysell nothing.”