Your Best Friend
8 you Englishwomen are terrified of being alone-terrified of silence" a young Frenchman once said to me. I remembered the blare of gramophones and wireless in English homes, and I remembered particularly a labourer’s wife whom I had found at her washtub. The loud speaker was g0ing © full blast. "It’s company," she said, "I feel kind of lonely without it." "But do you want to listen to a lecture in German on eurhythmics?" "Is it German?" she said, surprised, "I didn’t notice." ‘It’s odd, I think, that we need so much noise to keep us company -in fact, to keep us from thinking. Are we so frightened of our own thoughts, or haven’t we any thoughts at all? I’m inclined to think that is the basis of English unhappiness. We aren't sufficiently good company for ourselves. The first thing you can do, is to imagine being friends with yourself. You are not going to get very far depending on other people. After all, however much you hide in noise, speed, commpany, or whatever is your particular form of amusement, you've got to come back to yourself. Why not, therefore, come to terms with the person that you are?
Rosita
Forbes
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 43
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203Your Best Friend New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 43
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