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HowtoQuit
Making
Mistakes!
by
Roderick C. Meredith
What is the secret of overcoming personal problems and job failures?
O
H,
I
W ISH,
I wish I
hadn't made that aw–
ful mistake!" the
young woman cried out to
herself.
But she had, just the same–
as usual.
And as she watched her hus–
band angrily slam the car door,
roar out of the driveway and dis–
appear down the strcct,- she felt
a great emptiness swccp over her.
Their little home no longe r
seemed like a castlc.
lt
seemed
like a tomb.
Strangely, the thing she had
becn so upset about with her hus–
band no longer seemed important.
In the melancholy silence of the
empty house, she couldn't care
Jess.
As she slumped dejectedly in a
chair in the middle of the room, she
began to realize deeply that it
was her husband she wanted-not a
new vacuum cleancr he said they
couldn't a.fford.
Why
did she always pick at him
when he carne home at night?
Why
did she always have to say thc
wrong thing to her husband–
words she deeply rcgretted later?
And
why
did he have to react tbe
way he did?
Find the CAUSE of You r Proble m
Nearly all of us in the industrial–
izcd world havc modero houses,
cars, radios, television sets, nice
clothes, ample diets. Yet, like the
young couple pictured above, we all
too often have giant frustrations,
moods, family problems, health
problems, job problems.
With physical comforts and
wealth that the underprivileged
three fou rths of this earth's
population only dream about,
most
people in the devel–
oped world still
have deep problems, frustration
and a sensc of emptiness.
Why?
Precisely because we are often
"sorry" - like the young wife
described above- yet unwilling to
quit making the mistakes that bring
on these troubles!
A young wife, like the one pic–
tured earlicr who upset her hus–
band, will usually try to "salve" the
problem by saying she is sorry, fix–
ing his favorite dish that night or
sorne other
temporary
expedient.
Even this, of cou rse, is far more
than
many
would do!
But it is not nearly enough.
Why? Because it only smooths
over the
one
upset.
1t
does not get
at and salve the basic
CAUSE
of the
continua! fights and argu–
ments that plague so
many families today.
The offending
spouse should s it
down and carefully
ask himself or