Also the very effort of your brain needed to cast off the tired
emphasis will be new to you, and thought in a new direction is
always restful in itself. Having learned to cast off the tired
emphasis when we go to bed at night, we can gradually learn to cast
it off before we go to meals, and at odd opportunities throughout
the day.
The more tired we are, the more we need to minimize our fatigue by
the intelligent use of our own wills.
Who cares for a game that is simple and easy? Who cares for a game
when you beat as a matter of course, and without any effort on your
part at all?
Whoever cares for games at all cares most for good, stiff ones,
where, when you have beaten, you can feel that you have really
accomplished something; and when you have not beaten, you have at
least learned points that will enable you to beat the next time, or
the next to the next time--or sometime. And everyone who really
loves a game wants to stick to it until he has conquered and is
proficient.
Why not wake up, and realize that same interest and courage in this
biggest game of all--this game of life?
We must play it!
Few of us are cowards enough to put ourselves out of it. Unless we
play it and obey the rules we do not really play at all.
Many of us do not know the rules, but it is our place to look about
and find them out.
Many more of us think that we can play the game better if we make up
rules of our own, and leave out whatever regular rules we do know,
that do not suit our convenience.
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