WHY BE UNPOPULAR?

Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1929, Page 16

WHY BE UNPOPULAR?

To some natures, very sensitive to the opinion of other people, there is intense suffering in being disliked or misunderstood. These same natures, however, quite infrequently fail to examine their own consciences to discover the possible cause of such dislike or misunderstanding. It does not seem to occur to them that there may be, in themselves, some s'rong streak of selfw’’l, or temperamental pride, or narrowness of vision, or love of self-assertion, tl. .t alienates more rational folk. Norapparently, does it strike them that their very over-sensitiveness is in itself a particularly alienating form of sheer conceit. It is a tacit admission, on the part of the self-willed and the self-assertive, that they consider they have a peculiar right to be taken at their own valuation and liked accordingly. A few lessons in humility, in patience, in forbearance, would win them the liking that is so necessary to their happiness, and that they forfeit because their own amour propre over-rides the spirit of self-forgetfulness. -H.S.