To think about something else is the best and only sure cure for
offended feelings. To think about the offense--its unkindness,
its injustice, its meanness of spirit, and all its other ugly
aspects--only adds to its sting and deepens our own suffering
or anger. This hurts us, and helps no one. Eggs are not the
only things that are given added life and power by being
brooded over. If we want to enlarge and multiply everything
unpleasant in that which has offended us, brooding over it will
do it. If we want to have done with it and get it out of our
life as quickly as possible, to turn deliberately away from
it and concentrate our thought and energy upon something else
is our sure road to success. “When any one has offended me, I
try to raise my soul so high that the offense can not reach
it,” Descartes is credited with saying. But we can not lift
ourselves by mere will power. We can lose ourselves by devotion
to something else--and thus we can lose the offense.--_Sunday
School Times._
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