_Think_ success, prosperity, usefulness. It is much more profitable
than thinking self-destruction or the effort at self-destruction for
that is an act which aims at an impossibility. You can destroy the
body, but the _you_ who suffers in mind and spirit will suffer still,
and live still. You will only change your location from one state to
another. You did not make yourself, you cannot unmake yourself. You
can merely put yourself among the spiritual tramps who hang about the
earth's borders, because they have not prepared a better place for
themselves.
Suicide is cheap, vulgar and cowardly. Because you have made a wreck
of a portion of this life, do not make a wreck of the next.
Mend up your broken life here, go along bravely and with sympathy and
love in your heart, determined to help everybody you can, and to better
your condition as soon as possible. Men have done this after fifty,
and lived thirty good years to enjoy the results.
Do not feel hurt by the people who slight you, or who refer to your
erring past. Be sorry for them. I would rather be a tender-hearted
reformed sinner than a hard-hearted model of good behavior.