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It has been my observation that the more many-sided a person is, the more fully developed, the more he is likely to have almost compartmentalized friends. He will seem to have different friends, as it were, for different occasions or different interests. Sometimes these hardly know one another — and are often surprised and even shocked when they finally meet as mutual friends of this friend. One can say definitely that one's innermost feelings must be reserved for only a very few intimates, perhaps three or four. Even of those each should be reserved to confide in only one particular aspect of life. Furthermore, we can share our inner feelings with someone who does not necessarily tell us his, but merely hears and sympathizes with ours. A mutual exchange of confidences is neither necessary nor always desirable. As a corrollary, since every human being needs someone willing to accept our confidence, each of us should be willing to accept someone else's troubles. |
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