Show f sk I 1 habit of holding a grudge I 1 X y jw X y v alfr at by JEAN NEWTON p aey say that elephants are very smart because they remember the boy who gave them a plug of to bacco in the summer of 1891 and squirt him with water when he comes around again in the late spring of 1 I cant see the wisdom in that the gray haired gentleman who gets the drenching very possibly has forgotten the tobacco incident and after many years the victim of the elephants re lenge has probably so much on his ons clence that the boyhood cal joke has entirely escaped him it as stupid of the elephant to take the tobacco in the first place and still less intelligent for him to devote storeroom to a grudge when that same space might much better have been employed as an arena for mental et fort that little story by broun Is worth passing on for the latter halt of the last sentence no grudge Is worth the mental storeroom store room which might be used or a live idea instead of a dead spite holding a grudge Is not a major crime or a great wrong it Is just a small vice that Is harmless except upon the person who holds it it a self consuming that business of holding a grudge and satisfying it in the form of revenge Is still more self consuming it satisfy anything it leaves a feeling of cheap ness and remorse the feeling that jou want to run away from yourself you have only to think back to the last time you indulged in a desire for revenge to back what I 1 m saying there Is only one kind of revenge that Is sweet and that Is the kind where as the telephone operator would say you reverse the charge that Is holding yourself so far above spite and resentment that the person who has wronged you must naturally give up being on the defensive which gives him enough vision to see your side too then the feeling of cheapness and self reproach Is on the other side which Is more satisfying to you than any active revenge you could have taken mi bell syndicate service |