BE A BUILDER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19144, 9 October 1925, Page 14

BE A BUILDER.

A builder! Of what? Of your own life. There are some people who are always destroying. Their very remarks are destructive. They pull down other people's characters, their motives for doing charitable deeds, in as few words as ppssible. It is so easy to criticise. There is something wrong with all of us, and our bad sides are bound to show at times. The merest child can find fault. Mrs. Jones is very cross. Why shouldn't I have clothes like Dora Blown ? Our garden isn't as big as the one at the end of the road. Why can't buttercups grow i all the year round ? And, in. the end—isn't everything horrid ? And the chiid grows, up into the woman who finds life a subject for destructive criticism. All the time she does not realise that she is pulling down her own life and that is why she .is unhappy. She cannot see that we're all cross sometimes and Mrs. Jones is no exception to the rule. That Dora Brown may have better clothes, but lack something she has. That a small garden may be just as delightful as a large one—and isn't it wonderful that there are buttercups at all ? It's just a case of seeing the wrong side of things. If you wonder why one girl is happy and another discontented, you'll find that it's all in the ' way they look at things. One sees the cloud, and the other the silver lining. If you stand on the top of a very high hill you can see the country around ail around, not just one part of it. And if life seems horrid to you, then you must riifnb above yourself and survey the surrounding landscape of life. Isn't there another side to things? Had you got your eyes fixed so firmly on "the shadow that you failed to see the shaft of sunlight l.y its side? For where the sun is "brightest the shadows are darkest you know! Examine your thoughts and your words, and see if they are constructive or destructive. If yon make up your' mind 40 be a builder, you will have shelter ugawist ail storms.