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Show Those Who Can "Stand and Wait" Quality Often of Greater Value Than Ability . to Do Things. "Every important life story has two aspects," says the famous Dr. Harry I'.merson Fosdiek : "The things a man has energy enough to do and the things a man has stability enough to stand." That is of special interest to women, wom-en, is the comment of a celebrated woman writer, for it is particularly true with women that much of what we are able to accomplish depends on how much we can stand. The hardest .battles are not always al-ways fought in the field of action. Indeed In-deed most of us have at some time said: ''It's so much easier when there's something you can do." Sometimes the most important "doing" "do-ing" consists of "standing" something that is hard to stand. The "energy to do" is, of course, an important thing. In this rushing, bustling, competitive world, we all have need of it. Hut there are circumstances cir-cumstances in everyone's life when that Is uncalled for, when it is use-'?ss, use-'?ss, when the problem at hand fs one it cannot solve. That is the time usually when it is not energy, but tandability that is needed to win through. Strength, yes, but the '.trength of balance and stability, the strength not to go out and do, but to stand and take it, to stand and withstand. with-stand. If I were faced with a choice of 'he two qualities, I should say that the person is belter off, particularly if she is a woman, who has her abundance in that steadiness and stability sta-bility that can stand things, than one who has instead merely a surplus of energy. For the former is the quality qual-ity n ost needed in the exigencies of daily life, needed most often and then most desperately. And it is a qual-;ty qual-;ty that depends entirely upon itself, hat is not fed by outside stimulus, s energy and activity may ho. In a line of the poet, Milton, there , thought on one kind of "standing liings" : "They also serve who only stand nd wait." . Bell Syndicate. WXU Service. |
