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attending the theater to enjoy a play surrounded by hun-dreds of others partaking of similar enjoyment. Suchactivities are pleasing and beneficial. But unless one candiscuss the game or the play the experience is largelynegative. A considerable part of the enjoyment of thegame will have been lost unless you can find someone elsewho also was a witness. Then the two of you can, andwill, relive the experience. Stamp collecting is a pleasure in which you participate,and an experience which you will share with other col-lectors wherever you meet. It is, in fact, an open sesameto companionship and lifetime friendship with people ofimportance almost everywhere in the world. Your ownposition in the scheme of life is of no consequence. Apaper hanger, because of his great interest in his stamps,was recently elected president of a stamp society whosemembers were largely high-powered executives in thefinancial world. The stamps had given the paper hangera common ground of interest with interesting peoplewhom he could never have met by any other means. Therelationship was, of course, a two-way affair. The execu-tives likewise had met through their hobby a personwhom they would never have had the pleasure of know-ing except through their collecting activities. Strangelyenough they had found each other to be sound and inter-esting fellows worth while knowing. |
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