Show The Art ot of Living I seem to be beo alright a perfectly sane woman Is known to have remarked remarked remarked re re- marked when everything runs run smoothly But Dut the moment anything happens to upset my routine m mg my nerves get the better of me and I Iam Ium Ium um am completely floored I wonder whether she realized the significance of her confession I As long as things r run smoothly anybody can get along Then there Is no need for Initiative or competence or courage The most helpless infant can get along and be alright As long as things run smoothly anybody can stay good natured Then there is no need for tor poise or sacrifice or self An enraged bull rushing downhill is 18 harmless If 11 no one gets gels In his lils path T The e test of us humans is s how we handle the situations that do not run run run smoothly smoothly how how we act in the face of disappointment or hardship or In in- justice Do we have poise judgment control control con con- Do we retain our perspective per and our own sense of justl Justice e Or are we floored defeated floored defeated before before before be be- fore we begin Do we run amuck and like the wild bull make whoever happens to come In is our path suffer for tor It IU When things go smoothly wo we are not going along along we we are being carried car car- ried red along on one of the pleasant sant tributaries tributaries tributaries trib trib- of the river of life lite Dut But when the currents cross and we find ourselves in unfriendly waters which if we let them would rush us to the deadly rapids that Is the time when we must ke keep p our heads and strike out and swim that swim that thatis is the time that tests our caliber And one thing we must all learn Is that there Is s not one of ot life's lifes lifes life's tributaries tributaries tribu tribu- no matter how pleasant that will curry carry us benignantly all the wa way to the sea sea- Just as ns there Is no land road that Is without snags smooth all aU the way so the kindest currents sometimes cross and put rit us on on our mettle P. P We have hae all got to take the rough with the lie smooth and to know to take the rough smoothly Is the whole art urt of living |