TAKING STOCK OF LIFE
People who are at a loss in their own company seldom make good company for others. To bore one’s self is a sure sign of an infinite capacity for boring others. The fact that occasionally even the most resourceful of us tire of our own company is no denial of tliis truism. The most brilliant folk like to tell their fellows how they have been getting on with themselves. And their interludes of solitude—times when they take stock of life on their own—give them something to tell, and the urge to tell it. To place social assets at the service of our neighbours we must first be able to marshal them on our own behalf. To entertain others, we must be able to entertain ourselves. The most stimulating contacts cannot strike sparks where there are none to kindle. Solitude, on the other hand, has struck sparks from the right sort of metal that have lit the world. Our own little uncompanioned flashes may no v t be in that Olympian category. But if they are bright enough to keep durselves amused, we shall not be too deadly dull in society. Even if we are but onlookers, at least we shall not be wet blankets.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 208, 22 November 1927, Page 5
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208TAKING STOCK OF LIFE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 208, 22 November 1927, Page 5
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