SICK OF LIFE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 21 June 1926, Page 8

SICK OF LIFE

w,m° y ° U e l VCl V, f , eel sick of life?.asks a writer m the Glasgow Weekly Herald. 1 a °" fc "jean to. such an extent that you would lie, willing t 0 provide material tor a coroner’s inquest, but do you sometimes get up in the morning 1 eel mg that file if just one long piece of drudgery, and going to bed again the only thing worth living for? ft isn’t when big sorrows come our way that we feel like that. The only remedy for those is the healer Time, and ilie knowledge that wo can still do tilings tor others even though for ourselves fife lias lost all its joy. But those other times! They do cause misery, don’t they? And" often Uieyare quite .unavoidable. Next time you feel like that, just ask yourself a lew questions. First of all, is there any little aliment that vou think not worth bothering about,‘but which is nagging your health away and causing you to nag at others! Livcrislmcss will do it, a touch of indigestion, or sometimes chilblains ot a. bad corn. You probably have vour own pet remedies for all of these, so just get them out and use them.

Llien, having settled that matter, look round at your home. Are there any worrying trifles which could soon be put right with a little trouble? Per. haps a loose door handle, a tap that will flrip, a drawer which: sticks, and so on. It any of these jobs are beyond your snongib or skill, probably the man of llio bouse will come to the rescue. I bare known a whole household disturbed every windy night by the flapping o! a corner of the linoleum on the landing. Yet no one nailed if down. I here are other possible reasons for the fad that you feci “at odds” with life, and one of them is looking too closely at your own life and surroundings, i.ouk to your health and vcur house bv all means, but alter that,'give a glance out beyond yourself to the big world. A wise old lady once remarked that she would advise no woman to marry a man who could not. “lock out. of 'the window. ’ And a doctor said lately that town-dwellers would all have bettor sight if they looked away into the distance at times, down the river perhaps, or even as far ns they could see down streets and roads, ft does our mental and spiritual sight good, too, when we realise that there are others m the world besides ourselves. A ir.ieird/of mine once‘told me that,at a, time of great.personal sorrow, she found relief in reading all she could of ilie happiness of others. She slid that even to read of wedding or of some pretty girl’s first dance made her feel pleased with the knowledge that there was still happiness and brightness in the world even if hers had gone. A very unselfish view? Very! But one lha t.it would do us all good' to aim for at times.