When I found myself alone I might, quite easily, have decided that I would give up my usual activities, that from then on I was going to do only what I really wanted for my own pleasure. Perhaps, in the beginning, my family and my friends and my associates would have been shocked. But in a very little while they would have accepted the changed situation, my place would have been filled by others, and I myself would have been forgotten and, worse, unneeded. It is easy to slip into self-absorption and it is equally fatal. When one becomes absorbed in himself, in his health, in his personal
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