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.