The Observation Post FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1942. Man the Fighter

Observation Post, Volume 1, Issue 22, 16 October 1942, Page 2

The Observation Post FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1942. Man the Fighter

Sometime or other we all feel up against it.” When that time comes, remember; We were all born to be fighters and also that all Life is a Battle. The chap that comes a flop, the man that goes to pieces, the degenerates, the failures, are all men who have failed to realise that they had a spot of fighting to do. The successful man is the man who early in the piece realises that he had a fight on hand and that it must be fought clean. The leaders are * chaps who rolled up their sleeves, layed their gun over open sights and went into action, whilst the failure was still dreamily looking on waiting to be • a casualty, the MAN was the winner! The trouble to-day is that life is made too smooth, too damned easy, too soft. Influence and Union control ruin too many men (and women). Let’s make up our minds to fight our way ahead and up the ladder of success. We shall meet men higher up who will try to push us down, because they want the credit for themselves or because they are jealous. • Those beneath us will try to drag, us down, will speak evil against us because they are jealous of our energy, our keenness and the rewards of our labours. But we will succeed if we fight and fight clean. Even Nature herself is continually.', fighting, struggling, competing with her own recalcitrant forces. Watch the fight between rain and drought, between cultivation and desert, between glut and famine. Watch the birds, the insects, and the hosts of wild things in the bush, in the stream, in the air. All, from the most minute microbes to the biggest mammals, must fight to live. • You are no exception. So stand up and fight! It’s the friction in the oyster that makes the pearl. Life’s a free-for-all, and the palm waits for the winner. Will you ever be a winner? Perhapsif you never forget that your ultimate success is relative to the physical fitness you acquire as you progress.