Warmth arrives at scale. Whatever is felt is felt largely, and the first impulse is always to include somebody else in it, so the house fills with guests, lodgers, animals and other people's children without any decision ever quite being taken. The native is genuinely hospitable rather than performing it, believes on principle that there is enough to go round, and is frequently proved right by the sheer number of people willing to help them. Optimism here is constitutional, not a discipline.
The excess is the same faculty running unopposed. Promises are made in the warmth of an evening and repented at the end of the month. The native overfeeds, overspends and overreassures, and takes on responsibility for people whose difficulties are not theirs to fix. Weight, drink and clutter accumulate quietly. There is a habit of describing hardship as a phase, which is comforting to hear and occasionally prevents anyone from dealing with the actual problem, including the native, who dislikes examining anything unpleasant for long.
Where the conjunction is given a proper object, it becomes remarkable. Teaching, medicine, the running of institutions that must look after people, any work where being trusted quickly is half the task: these suit it exactly, and the native's generosity turns out to be a professional asset rather than a private habit. What is needed is a limit imposed from outside, since none is available within. Those who acquire one, by marriage, by discipline or by a single expensive lesson, keep the generosity and lose almost nothing worth keeping.
What It Gives
- ◆hospitality on a large scale
- ◆faith that carries other people
- ◆quick forgiveness of injury
- ◆trust extended and usually repaid
What It Costs
- ◆promises exceeding capacity
- ◆difficulty faced too late
- ◆appetite without a natural limit
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