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Show Overcoming Our Failures Discouragement it a Menace to Happineii There arc times when notwithstanding notwithstand-ing our efforts we do not seem to make any headway with our ambitions, ambi-tions, says a writer. We set high goals for ourselves and we make the at-tempt at-tempt to gain them, but even though we plod perseverlngly toward them we seem to meet only wllh obstacles and disappointments. Then It Is that wc begin to feel that discouragement which is bound to react to our undoing un-doing unless we pull ourselves up sharply. Life Is not a bed of roses for anyone, for all that we envy the apparent ap-parent ease and happiness of some of those with whom we come In contact. con-tact. They, too. have their trials and their disappointments of which we know nothing, and who knows but that they bravely hide their real feel-igns feel-igns under a show of prosperity and happiness? No one likes to wear his heart upon his sleeve, and from the proudest to the humblest, from the richest to the poorest, there Is ever uppermost the determination to hide the disappointment of ambitions un-attained un-attained and hopes unfulfilled. It Is only through earnest effort that we overcome our failures, whether they affect our spiritual or our worldly desires, de-sires, and It Is for this reason that discouragement Is such a menace to happiness. |