Novelty and comfort are on cooperative terms without being confused. The native can alter a settled arrangement deliberately, at a chosen moment, and keep what was good in it, which is a rarer skill than it appears and is available rather than automatic. Those who exercise it are the friends everyone consults when a life needs restructuring. Those who never do are simply people with a mild taste for the unusual and a long habit of putting off any change until it is made for them.
The exercised form is practical. The native takes to new methods and new machinery without fuss and teaches them to nervous relatives patiently. Friendships cross the usual lines of age, class and country. A household is run on arrangements other people find eccentric and which turn out, on inspection, to suit the people living in it. Feeling is described with unexpected detachment, so the native can say what is happening to them while it is happening, and this makes them steady company in somebody else's crisis.
Dormant, it costs nothing visible and a good deal invisibly. The native stays where they are, remains interested in lives they are not leading, and eventually attributes the sameness to circumstance. The remedy is to make one deliberate change every few years while it is still optional. This contact rewards voluntary movement and gives nothing at all to the person waiting for a shock to do the work, and shocks fall on such a person exactly as hard as on anybody else.
What It Gives
- ◆change made deliberately, not under duress
- ◆friendships across unlikely lines
- ◆detachment that steadies others
- ◆quick adoption of new methods
What It Costs
- ◆movement deferred until forced
- ◆sameness blamed on circumstance
- ◆an option left unexercised for decades
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