Show iret 3 au A WHEN YOU ADMIRE YOU AKE ARE HAPPY 4 4 A man who was my friend Is gone he was a man everyone loved he could go into any corn com pany and inside of five minutes win every person in that that company as his friend H s genius was the genius for expressing his warm and friend ly personality last night when I 1 was thinking over our friendship for each other and trying to analyze to see if I 1 could discover the true secret of his gift I 1 hit upon something that hadiat t ever occurred to me before his genius was the genius of knowing how to admire I 1 ve never known anyone who was so filled with admiration and enghu for everything in the wide world as he was about things that you and I 1 take tor for granted he we went nt into raptures in the lowliest and meanest of lives he saw qualities to praise yes I 1 in m sure his genius was the genius for admiration and that that was what made him liked and popular and happy tor for you know what I 1 am telling you that he was a happy man how could he be otherwise when he found all the world and its contents infinitely beautiful and ex citing As I 1 was thinking about him last night I 1 couldn coulden t help comparing him contrasting him rather with 1 an other friend in his friends this other friend of mine finds nothing to ad mire absolutely nothing he attacks everything the institutions which men have founded are grounded on stupidity the heads of our govern ment are crooks Is he happy you know he lie Is not I 1 think it probably Is easier to be like the second man I 1 have told you about than the first for it seems to be one of the traits of human nature to like to find fault rather than to find things that are good yet I 1 am convinced that anyone with a little practice and attention to the job can acquire part of the genius of the man I 1 started tell ng you about in this little article the man who had the genius for admira admire tion just as an experiment suppose tor for one one day only you do not criticize anything or anybody look tor for something to admire and praise if U you look hard enough tor for something to praise you can find it but if U you don t find it right off don t say a word of criticism just keep still it if you can t praise it s amazing the effect this ha he on your life and on your outlook on the world one man to whom I 1 gave this ad vice a short time ago said it waa like going out into the sunlight attel leaving a darkened room when he began to see the world as an ad rather tean than as a fault finder consider that an experiment oi of this kind will take just one day ol 01 your time and not cost one cent 1 don t you think it 9 worthwhile |