Article January 25, 1975 Issue

Watching Our Responses

JEANETTE F. SUTTON

The way we respond to things plays a large part in determining our peace, harmony, and happiness. Our responses are more important than many of us realize.

One may believe that certain words or actions of another have caused him to be disturbed or miserable, while it is actually the state of his own thinking, rather than the circumstance, that has produced his unhappy feelings.

I became more aware of the importance of watching my responses through the following experience. One afternoon and evening I became the recipient of repeated disturbing telephone calls. Because they continued, coming at regular intervals, I removed the receiver from the telephone at one thirty in the morning so that I could get some sleep.

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