_THE COURAGE OF FACING CONSEQUENCES_
YOUNG people sometimes play the game of "Consequences." The sport
increases in proportion to the strangeness of the results.
Perhaps the reason the game has so many attractions is the fact that
life is a long story of consequences.
There are people who do not like to play the game of life seriously
because they say the consequences of self-denial and self-sacrifice are
too uncertain; they prefer the cowardice of inaction to the courage of
purposeful living.
The folks worth while are those who, refusing to be troubled by what may
or may not be the consequences of their acts, still have the pluck to go
on with what they know is right. Let the results be what they may, they
propose to be straightforward and true. This is the courage that counts.
There may be uncertainty as to the specific form the results of their
stand may take, yet that result is sure to be pleasing and helpful.
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