Forget It Kid
By S. Teets
No use cryng over spilt milk kid…so forget it…dry your eyes…lift your head…look to the sun and say, “At first I didn’t succeed, but I’ll try and try again.”
Honestly, kid, there’s every evidence of encouragement in that motto…perseverance means plenty to you…plenty. It means a place for you somewhere out there under that blanket of blue…a place of pride and dignity…and its yours, with out a sob-story…without no prevarication at all…Its yours…not for the asking…but for the perseverance you have in you…
So why not show some perseverance?…real perseverance…perseverance that will set your soul afire with renewed hopes and ambition!…perseverance that will get you somewhere…a place you seek…and when you do get it, via that method, you must, of course, fight to hold it…and fight darn hard.
But if you have the proper spirit, and the will to put up a stiff fight, then the battle is WON. For, like everything else in this world, it takes perspiration to retain it…and you can retain it—successfully—if you put your heart and soul to it and say “I WILL.”
But its no use crying, kid…that won’t get you anything…not even a glimpse of that place…no promises at all…“But these are chaotic times,” you say…I know these are chaotic times…difficult and severe…with but scant opportunities for you…I need no indication to make me see them…to understand them…in fact, we are slugging through an era never before experienced or realized by humanity…never before dreamed of…But God bless us, kid, ’cause aren’t we still slugging? Aren’t we still progressing?…Of course we are…BUT you will obviously make that era more severe and more difficult for you if you shed tears and think the end is at hand when its not…Apparently, you will make others believe you are a sob-sister…a cry-baby…trying to slug your way to the front with a sob-story…trying tearfully and feverishly to make others take pity on you…to caress you and shower you with all they’ve got…
Fie, kid, that won’t pay…it never did…No worthy human being ever obtained a place of recognition that way…No, indeed…They got theirs with dry eyes and a lifted chin…and got it in spite of the ruthless, demoralizing effects aimed at them…and I expect you to do the same…You can if you want to…there’s no such a thing as I can’t…You can if you put on a new mask and face the world as it should be faced…with strength and determination…not with sob-stories, or crying to the sky for “breaks” and all that kind of rot…I call it “rot” because that’s what it is…nothing but rot…and the worst kind of rot that humanity has ever known!
Make your resolution now to attend the 63rd at Cincinnati
July 2nd, 3rd & 4th
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