ent
conclusion, should not be called worry, but anxiety. There is a very
great difference between worry and concentrated study of a vexing
problem. The characteristic of worry is a tendency to brood anxiously
over fancied troubles. The typical worrying mind will take mere
trifles and magnify them until they become monumental difficulties. Many
acquire the habit of going over and over again, and still again, the
various unpleasant experiences which they have passed through during
life. This inclination is baneful in its influence, To such persons I
would say, eliminate the past. Try the forgetting habit, cultivate
health and along with it good cheer. Make your mind a blank so far as
the past is concerned, and fill it with uplifting thoughts for the
present and the future. Worry is a mental poison, the toxic element
produced in the mind by retention of waste matter, thoughts of the dead
past that should have been eliminated with the passing of out-worn
periods of existence.

Self-pity is another evil. It is closely allied to worry. There are many
who cultivate a mental attitude of this sort because of the sorrows
through which they have passed. Such individuals find their chief
delight in portraying, in vivid details, the terrific sufferings which
they have had to endure. No one has suffered quite so much as they have.
They harrow their friends by going over frequently and persistently
the long, gruesome details of their "awful" past. This habit is
destructive to an extreme degree. Why harbor past experiences that
only bring sorrows to mind? Why add to the bitterness of your daily
life by dragging up the lamentable past? Why pass along to
your friends and acquaintances pain, sorrow and gloom? Each human
entity is a radiating power. You have the capacity of passing around
pain or happiness. As a rule, when you ask a friend to "have
something with you" your offer is supposed to bring good cheer. You
surely would not ask a friend to have pain with you, or share with you
the gall of bitter, experiences through which you have lived. Therefore,
if you are the victim of self-pity and if your own past sufferings
discolor your every pleasant thought, at least do not taint the minds of
your friends. At least keep your direful broodings to yourself if you
are determined to retain them. It is, however, far wiser and manlier to
avoid such thoughts, in which case your memory of these