HOPE FOR THE BEST.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17934, 30 July 1920, Page 8

HOPE FOR THE BEST.

“There’s nothing good or bad in I life but thinking makes it so.” And : every day reveals to most of us the , essential truth of the aphorism. To-day the sun is shining, the i world to which we wake looks fair, I we feel fit. and the battle of life is | filled with the prospect of victory, i So. throughout the day, petty troubles are diminished and little plea- ! sures become abiding joys. ,To-morrow a cold rain falls dismally, the world looks glum, and I with glum hearts we find our day full of worries and life a tragic pas- I sage of embittered serfdom. . There are optimists and pessi- | mists, determined minds which will not be baulked of their fixed ideas, and the optimists, even when they suffer defeat, help most to make lhe world go round. But most of us ; are®neither one nor the other. Wei are creatures of impulse, and we can ' control the impulse. ; Face the worst when it comes, and ; face it like a man. Until it >-.omes, i believe in the possibility of the best. | You do not gain strength, you rather i sap it, by foreboding and despair. i