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The Sunny Side of the Street

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 28, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 30.

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The Sunny Side of the Street

THERE are two kinds of people in the world—those who live in the shadow and gloom, and those who live on the sunny side of the street. These shadowed ones are sometimes called pessimists, sometimes they are said to have a melancholy temperament, sometimes they are called disagreeable; but, wherever they go, their characteristic is that their shadow always travels on before them. Such persons never bear their own burden, but expose all their wounds to others. They are all so busy looking down for pitfalls and sharp stones and thorns on which to step that they do not even know that there are any stars in the sky. These folks live on the wrong side of the street. And yet it is only twenty feet across to the other sidewalk, where sunshine always lies.—Newell Dwight Hillis.