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Show Throa Rules for Well-Being n YEAR AGO Edith Sunde, 628 West 114th Street, New York City, was on the verge of a breakdown. She would go to her vork every morning feeling that a crushing weight was settling lown on her. She didn't see how she was going to handle all the vork before her, some of if left over from the day before. She Ireaded the nerve-racking sessions with her high-strung boss who vorked always under tension. At the end of the lay, she had no appetite, and only forced down he food necessary to keep her going. All the day ong, every day, from morning to night, she was ired. When she tried to sleep, it was only half i sleep, the other half was a nightmare. Did this mental state take its toll? Naturally! That was inevitable. Soon her physical self be-:ame be-:ame undermined. She suffered violent pains in aer stomach. She went to a doctor who discovered i thyroid deficiency and said her pulse rate was Ear too high. Then he told her what she already Carnegie inew, that she was living under too great strain. He added that he could relieve her symptoms but that she herself would have to effect the cure. As she left the doctor's office, she asked herself if it were worth while? She was living 1500 miles from home. Human values meant most to her yet there was no opportunity oppor-tunity to give anything significant to anyone's life. If she were run over no one would miss her particularly. A gnawing sense of futility suffused her entire being. Suddenly she wondered whether the people all around her felt the same. What would happen if each of them became swiftly swift-ly and miraculously happy. Each helping the other! Well, she might find someone she could help. She went home and wrote a set of rules to follow for just one week, to see if they would work. Here they are: 1 Try to learn another's problems and help to solve them. 2 Do the job at hand and forget all the others. 3 Laugh often, and laugh at myself. See the funny side of troubles whenever possible. |