It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances
of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a
greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,
when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often
seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face,
and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in
which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other
aspect."
It was so with this disagreeable necessity of living among many
people. There is nothing more miserable than to lose the feeling
of our own distinctiveness, since that is our only clue to the
Purpose behind us and the End before us. But when we have
discovered that human beings are not a mere "mass," but an
orderly Whole, of which we are a part, it is all so different!
This we working-girls might have learned from the webs of cloth
we saw woven around us. Every little thread must take its place
as warp or woof, and keep in it steadily. Left to itself, it
would be only a loose, useless filament.
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