DON’T BE A KICKER OR A KNOCKER
If a man keeps on complaining about things in general and particular, he will soon be thrown out of decent society.
Grievances and troubles come to every man in this world, and every man knows it without constantly repeating it. He has his own troubles, and does not care to be saddled with yours.
This is a good old earth if you would take off your blue spectacles and look at it with your own eyes.
Some men are so dissatisfied with things that there is no pleasing them, but if you attempt to take from them the things that do not satisfy or please, they set up a roar.
When there is a wrong to be righted, some right to be protected, it is well enough to complain, but there are numerous persons who go about complaining all the time. When it is not one thing it is another.
These persons are given the name of “kickers,” and when they keep it up they are deemed “chronic kickers.”
It is sometimes impossible to pass these people by, lest a really suffering brother human be denied help. But they become known, and should be avoided for the sake of one’s peace of mind.
The strong man will bear his troubles in silence, but the weak one whines about them and fancies they are the worst.
If you stop to consider how this earth would get along without you, and that it did without you a long time, perhaps you would quit kicking and give others a rest from your complaints.
A little kicking may be useful, but too much of it lands a man outside the reach of opportunity.