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Avocations, hobbies, sports, all these give us conversational small coin. But the gold of conversation comes from travel and observation and its jewels come from reading and thinking. The talk value of travel is too well known to need emphasis. Even newlyweds customarily realize that to start off their union with things to talk about they ought to spend what is left after the wedding ceremony on a honeymoon trip! The only trouble with travel is that it is expensive. Nevertheless, wise persons will so manage things that they get in some traveling. At a pack a day, denying oneself cigarettes, saves enough for a trip to Europe every ten years. In my own case, when most of my friends bought a car, I went to Europe for three months, and waited two more years for the car. So far I still think I chose the wiser part. Travel, especially foreign travel, is a conversational gold mine — and one ought to do it young enough to draw interest from it during a long life. |
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