ARE YOU LIVING UP TO YOUR POTENTIAL? - Brian Knowles - October 1978

Brian Knowles

Personal discouragement and a feeling of worthlessness are hallmarks of our troubled times. A reader of The Plain Truth wrote, "I have often looked longingly at the guns hanging on my wall, and thought that maybe that would be the best way out." He wrote of feelings of "inferiority, guilt, and worthlessness." How unfortunate! Yet many suffer from similar feelings. If you are one of these unfortunate souls, it's high time you adopted a new view of yourself and the rest of humanity! Depression, as one writer put it in a recent Plain Truth, is a "gray menace." Depression and discouragement will gnaw at you until they destroy you - if you let them. And nothing is more depressing than the idea that you, as an individual, are worthless. We all have low points. None of us is immune from occasional despondency. But no one has to live with it on a chronic basis. Some people are very consistent they are always discouraged. They live in "the pits." They have adopted a permanent posture of personal worthlessness. They are like the character Joe Bfsplk in the now defunct Lil' Abner comic strip everywhere they go there is a dark cloud over their head. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library