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| Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 - Whistler |
“The pessimist resembles a man who observes with
fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a
sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the
person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who
removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and
carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a
few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all
the richness set down in these notes, on all the life he has already
lived to the fullest. What will it matter to him if he notices that he
is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees,
or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a
young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future
which is in store for him?
No, thank you,' he will think.
'Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the
reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely
suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud,
although these are things which cannot inspire envy.' " - Viktor E. Frankl
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