The Nome Daily Nugget

Through a Woman's Eyes
NEWTON
By JEAN

"A MIND THAT NOTHING CAN IRRITATE"

He is a man of rarest equanimity. His achievements were possible only to a mind that nothing could irritate.

We find that in the biography of a great man. Incidentally it points out the source of a tremendous waste of which men and women are the victims. It is the waste of health and strength and mentality and fine abilities because of the lack of that quality of equanimity.

I think women suffer much more from the frustration caused by that kind of waste than men, for women are far more vulnerable to the irritations, as we can personally the many annoyances of every day, the innumerable ways in which we can allow ourselves to be distracted, if we will, from the big points of issue.

Equanimity! A grain of it is worth large quantities of some of the other ingredients of success or happiness. For without it a large part of those ingredients is burnt up. With it almost second-rate material can frequently be transmuted into something worthwhile. It occurs to me that that quality of poise and calm which we call equanimity acts on our abilities as the gastric juices act on food. It makes most of them. Without it they are squandered.

That is why many women with fine abilities—whether they happen to be in creating happiness in the home, making most of their children, or writing books or painting pictures—make nothing of their possibilities. They allow the little snags and hitches of every day life to thwart them. Momentary annoyances in the details of living irritate them and throw them off their main track.

It is far from easy, of course, to live always in the light of a true sense of values, to see the irritations always in perspective, and therefore in their true unimportance—to keep the important part of ourselves where nothing can irritate it. It is far from easy. But it is the secret of much in accomplishment, happiness, really living.

Bell Syndicate - WNU Service.