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and very sorry for ourselves. That is a waste of sympathy. Never be sorry for yourself.
Regard your sympathy as a glass through which you
may behold the heart of humanity. Do not turn it
upon yourself. While you are looking at your own
troubles some one may go by who needs your attention, and you will lose an opportunity to be kind and
lead a blind man across the street or to restore a crutch
to a cripple who has fallen.
You would even risk losing a train or being late to
an important engagement to do an act of mercy such
as that. You would be ashamed to leave the cripple
where he could not reach his crutch or the blind man
lost in a labyrinth.
We are all of us needing the crutch or a kind word
or look or thought, and all of us are needing a hand to
lead us into the right path. Yet how we push and
crowd and jostle one another. How we sneer and
criticise and condemn, so long as we do not see the
blind eyes or the missing limb!
What a pity that it is only the physically disabled
who appeal to us!
There was a man born without legs who begged
upon the streets, and everybody poured pennies into
his cup so that he was enabled to buy himself three
houses and to get drunk and to divorce one wife and
marry another like a gentleman of high society. Yet
people continued to pour money into his cup.
Across the street was an able-bodied man whose
business was crushed by the power of a corporation,
and he had a mother and a sick sister to support, and
he could not afford the luxury of even one wife.
He lay awake nights trying to plan how he could
win success in life, and he grew pale and hollow-eyed,
