IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF ANYTHING WALK

RIGHT UP TO IT!

When you were a child and were frightened at night

by a terrible big white thing waving its arms at you, and you

walked up to it, and saw that it was only a shirt hanging on the

clothes line and flapping in the wind, your terror was gone and

you laughed.

And, even now, things that from a distance seem most

alarming are not very dreadful when we face them squarely

and examine them. For instance, there is a certain great man

whom you have to see. You fear you are going to be tongue

tied in his presence. But if, in your mind, you go up to him

before you meet him, and look closely, and see that after all he

is only human, and eats and drinks and is glad and mad like the

rest of us, you will go to your interview naturally and with self-assurance.

Nothing is so bad when you get to it.

“I have seen a lot of troubles in my day,” said an old

man, “and most of them never happened.”