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Show AILlECAKItEGrel ASA BOY of fourteen Charles H. Brantley, Huntsville, Alabama, once made preparations for the annual trip to the boy scout camp. Thirty boys from his home town were making the trip, and they were to meet at a designated place and there board a chartered bus for the trip to camp. Between Charles' home and the bus were several houses which he had to pass carrying his sack filled with supplies. Since it was Sunday he did not want to be seen carry- I ing that sack, he was afraid of what people might say about him. Very soon a fellow Boy Scout came by f f and he agreed to carry Charles' sack in addition to 2 ( his own for five cents. vS 2Pv Such little incidents as that occurred many times In the years that followed, and Charles soon found yjpWVj&S that his fears were getting the best of him and he was "worrying about almost everything. After graduating Kaiia -- jfei'mi from high school he enrolled in college twice, only to CARNEGIE give some excuse for not attending when the day arrives. ar-rives. In 1945 he entered the army and was sent to a camp a thousand miles from home. Practically all the men in camp were many miles from home and most of them had worries. Since it was next to impossible to avoid being part of a group at all times, Charles made up his mind that he would make the best of everything. Instead' of telling everybody about his own problems, he listened to the other fellow. Since he was willing to listen, nearly all the men eventually came to him with their stories. His reason for telling this to you is to suggest that you do all you can in any situation, then forget it, for he applied this advice to his own problems and found that it worked. No longer does he worry about what people think of him, for he is firmly convinced that most people are too busy worrying about themselves them-selves to take the time to give him a thought, ..and, if he has done the best he can, worrying about what people might think of him certainly won't make them think any differently. |