EDITORIAL
’’Laugh and the world laugh’s with you; Wegrpy and you weep alone.”
- In those two lines you have the best advice you can ever be given to form your philosophy of life© If you got a knock the world permits you a.short burst of reasonable grief, end sympathises with you, and your friends stick around and help along, but continue your grief overling, or let it sour your mental attitude, and the world regards you as a whiner, a grimier, 'and your friends, get tired of you - you won’t onjpy life with thejji « why should they have their pleasures soured because you "can’t take it”. And so they drift away and ’’You weep alone”® Your thoughts run in a vicious circle from grievance to grief and back to grievance again. And, like the mythical bird you fly around in "ever decreasing concentric circles” until you are alone in a real spot.
But look for the silver lining, turn on a grin even though it hurts* ‘ It will soon stop hurting - and you’ll find that you are a valued friend because you can laugh and enjoy life - you’ve got guts and a sense of homour - two essentials to a worth-while man."
Choose for yourself whether the world is to laugh with you or At you. Bui; if it laughs at you, you’ve chosen & damp and dismal lonely road - it’s only song a moan* Not very attractive, is' it? *' • *
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Gun Flash, Issue XI, 13 March 1943, Page 1
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238EDITORIAL Gun Flash, Issue XI, 13 March 1943, Page 1
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