“One gains a lot by going out into the world, by traveling and living in different places,” Rose said to me one day, “but one loses a great deal, too. After all I’m not sure but the loss is greater than the gain.”
“Just how do you mean?” I asked.
“I mean this,” said Rose. “The best anyone can get out of this world is happiness and contentment and people here in the country seem so happy and contented, so different from the restless people of the cities who are out in the rush of things.”
So after all there are compensations. Tho we do not have the advantages of travel, we stay-at-homes may acquire a culture of the heart which is almost impossible in the rush and roar of the cities.
I think there are always compensations. The trouble is we do not recognize them. We usually are so busily longing for things we can’t have that we overlook what we have in their places that is even more worth while….
….We who live in the quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those who are keeping up with the crowd…
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