Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from Nuggets of New Thought by William Walker Atkinson, published

in 1902.

There is something attractive to me about slang in the pat phrases that are passed along from one to another on the street.

Many of these phrases condense in a few words, certain practical truths, that one could use

as the basis for a sermon, an essay, or even a book.

They are the practical experiences of the people, crystallized in a catchy phrase.

For example, the phrase forget it seems to me to contain much practical common sense,

and if people would put it into practice, there would be many

more brighter faces, many more lighter hearts.

What's the use, anyhow, of carrying around a long face or a heavy heart?

Just because way back in the past something went wrong. Even if we went

wrong ourselves, and most of us have, what's the use? Forget it. Of course we won't forget the

experiences of the past and we don't want to.

That's one of the things we are living for, gaining experience.

When we have really learned a thing through experience, we never forget it.

It is a part of us.

But why bother about the memory of the pain, the mortification, the slip-up, the heartache,

the wounded feelings, the misplaced confidence, the thing done in the wrong way, the chance

we let slip by.

The folly, the sin, the misery, the might have beens, and all the rest.

Oh, what's the use?

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