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Show FIND OTHER SELF TO GET RESULTS FROM VACATION A successful viiratlon Is to lie had only through your finding and being another self. I won't say that It Is a truer self, though that is what you will foci when you find It, asserts Floyd Dell In the Cosmopolitan. There Is nothing really mystical about Ibis other self of yours. When you were n child, you had a number of Interesting possibilities in your nature, not all of which have been developed In your adult life. You have had to make choices and to leave neglected Rome of the more romantic ro-mantic sides of your nature. You have been obliged to concentrate upon your capacities for work and to cultivate In yourself the more responsible re-sponsible and grown-up kinds of emotion. You play now and then, but your play Is thinly sandwiched In between thick Blabs of duty. ICven your pleasures are so regulated regulat-ed as to become social "duties." Why? Because you're afraid! You're afraid If you really leave your workaday world completely behind be-hind for something beautiful and perilous, forget all about it for a week or two, you'll he so happy you'll never come back to it, and they'll put you In Jail for vagrancy. You're afraid that if you actually don't think about your parents, your marital partner or your offspring for a day or two you won't be able to recall their names when It's time to go back home. You are afraid that If you stop being a responsible grownup for a fortnight you will want to stay a child all the rest of your life, like Peter Pan. Yes, and above all, you are afraid that If you should have a romantic encounter with an attractive stranger of the opposite sex, you will run off to Minorca with him or her, and spend the rest of your time listening to the peacocks. |