Don't Worry

Some writer, who evidently has been a spectator of that baseless apprehension of coming evil; that borrowing of trouble on the credit of a spookish fancy that plows furrows in the face ahead of time and embitters all the sweets of anticipation, has laid down, under the caption "Don't Worry," the following "golden rule": "One day at a time conscientiously lived up to will keep the eyes bright and the cheeks round and rosy. Don't begin to worry about things days beforehand. It will be time enough when they happen. It is the dread of what may come, not what is, that makes one old before the time. If you lie awake half the night worrying about something that is going to occur the next morning, will be far less able to face bravely and work out the problem than if you had made an effort and thought of something else till sleep carne. It is not half as hard as it sounds, and will grow easier every time you try it. Perhaps after all the disaster will not befall you or will be less awful than you anticipated, and just think what a lot of unnecessary wrinkles you have worried into your face. "Another thing, don't torment yourself about what people are going to think about this and tbat action. No matter what you do or leave undone, some one will criticise you severely, and the very best rule for getting through life with comparative comfort is, after you have made up your mind as to the propriety and advisabihty of a certain course, pursue it calmly, without paying the slightest attention to the criticisms of the lookers on from the outside. You see, just because they are on the outside they can only see the surface. It does not matter in the least what they think.'