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All this matter of confidential friends must not be a formal matter, as if it were a public contract. Nor should one have several totally confidential friends. One may, however, have as many as four or five persons in the world with each of whom one shares some particular category of intimacy. One's wife or girl friend could well be a man's chief confidant in all matters pertaining to his job, his business associates, his economic prospects, but a former schoolmate might better be the recipient of his feeling about the days gone by, including the "girls he used to know." He will have feelings about those matters —as long as he is a human being he will retain these — and, given a certain temperament, it may be well for him to have someone special with whom to talk about them. |
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