Nothing about this contact feels like effort. The native leaves jobs, cities and arrangements without ceremony and lands well, having usually been offered something before the decision was announced. Unorthodox opinions cost them nothing socially, because they are delivered with such good humour that nobody takes offence. Friends of every description, drawn from every stratum, pass through the house. Such a person is genuinely tolerant, not as a discipline but because difference has never once threatened them.
The trap is the absence of any pressure to consolidate. Since escape is always available, it is always used, and the native reaches middle age with a remarkable range of experience and very little depth in any of it. They will explain that they value freedom, which is true and also cheap: freedom has never had to be defended here, only enjoyed. What they cannot do is stay through the dull middle of something, the years when a craft or a marriage or a company stops being interesting and starts being real.
The capacity is worth more when it has something to be free from. Natives who take on a genuine obligation, a dependent, a partnership, a long piece of work, find that the aspect stops functioning as an exit and starts functioning as invention: they discover ways round obstacles that others accept as fixed. Undirected, it gives a pleasant, scattered, well-travelled life. Directed, it gives the reformer who cannot be intimidated, since there is nothing they are afraid of losing that they could not replace.
What It Gives
- ◆untroubled independence of mind
- ◆wide and unsnobbish acquaintance
- ◆graceful adaptation to upheaval
- ◆inventive solutions to fixed problems
What It Costs
- ◆escape chosen because it is easy
- ◆breadth without depth
- ◆obligations quietly avoided
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