Show Self-Sacrifice Self I IO O ONCE NCE there was a man who lived ed for his family He was interested in all they did and proud of their successes He stayed home at night and liked to spend his evenings with them He spent very little littIe money on himself and worked hard ever every everyday everyday day to give them all that heart could desire But still stilt he felt that they did not have enough and he began to speculate to tomake tomake tomake make money for them faster That led tc to failure and a drop in the world And then he worked all the harder to make up foi fOJ the bad judgment by which he had robbed em But the the strain was too great and andI I gradually he began to feel that the burden I he imposed on himself had been imposed by byI I them Ithem and he felt felt- felta a little hurt and began to lo toI I keep out of the circle And then the he felt that he wasn't wanted in it and he heI I began to resent their happy life with each other and when he saw them talking quietly together he felt so much l left ft out that it looked to him like plotting plotting- they were al au aU conspiring against him him and and lie he b began gan 1 to 0 threaten And that helped to kill their love And nd so things kept g tt ng worse vorse until family life was at an end and the people in all the world that he cared the most about despised him him and he k knew ew it And there is no worse agony than that If he hadn't tried so h hard rd to do it all himself they would have at alj been happy still Self sacrifice is as bad as selfishness when it becomes a fixed ide idea |