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Show Happiness Largely Habit. Bernard Shaw remarks in one of hi. plays that "the man with the toothache tooth-ache thinks every one happy whose teeth are sound, and the poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man." So it is with most things. One always al-ways feels that the thing one does not possess, or the thing one cannot do, is the one big esentlal thing to happiness. happi-ness. Those who are unsuccessful think the successful one must be happy. Invalids think if they had health nothing else would be the matter. Every laboring man thinks if he only had leisure he would be content. But, unfortunately, happiness is not the prerogative of any class of people or station in life. No doubt centain persons are gifted with a happier and more cheerful temperament tem-perament than others, but one's point of view is really largely a matter of habit, and the thing to do is to try and get into the habit of letting one's thought dwell on the pleasant things of life as much as possible and forget for-get its worries as soon as may be. V 4 r |
