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any individuals throw out an atmosphere of chill instead of appreciation; they are totally unaware of the influence they throw out. There are many, many lives that go around antagonizing everyone they meet; driving friends and friendships from them; defeating their hearts' dearest purpose, and never understanding why, when it is plain to those who look on, that all their difficulties come from a lack of thought about the delicate and intricate adjustments of human life. There are thousands of homes which are without sunshine and good cheer, not because they are really without love, but because they have missed the one line of transference of these things and that is, appreciation and the expression of the appreciation. There are thousands of offices, stores, work-shops, factories, schools, and places where humankind beat out their lives, that are wholly without inspiration, not because they are lacking in earnestness, but simply because they have never formed the habit of recognition and have none of the cooperative appreciation which gives out to others and at the same time brings out the best for itself. Companion with this lack of appreciation is the spirit of sullenness, crankiness, and complaint; a continual looking at the dark side of things, and a sourness which makes not only one's own atmosphere acid, but reaches out into the lives of all those around us. It is time for us to learn that we should have sunshine of our own and also that we have no right to 51 steal the sunshine away from other lives. The world is often a beautiful place to other people until someone, with no appreciation or recognition, steals it from them. We have no more right to enter a life and rob it of its joy, than we have to enter a house and rob it of its valuables. It is small enough for us to look at the gloomy side of life and never feel the force of appreciation, but it is still worse to make our atmosphere so dense with it, that we crowd our discontent and heaviness into the lives of others around us. Of course we may be a crank if we want to be; that is our own affair; but we have no right to crowd our smallness into the lives of others, and neither have they any right to allow us to do it. We should all be taught to recognize such disagreeable natures and atmospheres at a glance, take them as a signal of undevelopment, and protect our own lives from them. Some time in our life we all meet one of these walking frosts and we never forget the chill they always gi | ||
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