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Timebinder, v. 2, issue 2, whole no. 6, Spring 1946
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spirit in which they offer it, and which I want others to accept my gifts. I love to give presents, even beyond what I can really afford. In fact, it is those gifts that give me the greatest of personal satisfaction. I have several times even gone into debt to get the money to buy something for someone. I try not only to be generous to my relatives and close friends, but also to casual friends and even strangers. I have many times given to street mendicants far more than they have asked, and have in so doing received great personal joy. Yet I find that often, even in my giving, I have not created the feelings of happiness and response I desired. My presents have often “back-fired” on me in the form of extreme ungratefulness, and even hardships. One for whom I tried to be both a friend and a generous giver later repaid me by bringing me the greatest tribulation and financial loss of my attempt at kindness. I know this is not unusual – that there are other givers who have achieved the same results from their attempts to bring happinesses and better conditions to others. It is but another added feature to the many that have led me to the conclusion that I am one of the “almost” people of the world. I have quite a talent for organizational promotion. I had one chance to use this in a professional way, and for a time I made a good success at it, and had the happiest period of my business life stemming from the actual work itself. But it did not last, There were many factors for its eventual failure, of which I can now properly ascribe many to myself; others I know were not attributable to my acts or omissions. I have been able to use this ability a considerable number of times in my various avocational interests, with quite a good bit of success, and happiness to myself resulting therefrom. I have an unbounded enthusiasm for life, and for anything for which I care at all or in which I believe. I am able to transmit this enthusiasm to others to a considerable extent in many cases, which may account for such successes as I have had in my organizational work. In fact, I think the one greatest attribute towards a fuller and richer life which I have is that same enthusiasm of the spirit. I know it has kept me mentally young; a sort of Peter pannish character often ridiculed; but, I believe, more often -7-
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spirit in which they offer it, and which I want others to accept my gifts. I love to give presents, even beyond what I can really afford. In fact, it is those gifts that give me the greatest of personal satisfaction. I have several times even gone into debt to get the money to buy something for someone. I try not only to be generous to my relatives and close friends, but also to casual friends and even strangers. I have many times given to street mendicants far more than they have asked, and have in so doing received great personal joy. Yet I find that often, even in my giving, I have not created the feelings of happiness and response I desired. My presents have often “back-fired” on me in the form of extreme ungratefulness, and even hardships. One for whom I tried to be both a friend and a generous giver later repaid me by bringing me the greatest tribulation and financial loss of my attempt at kindness. I know this is not unusual – that there are other givers who have achieved the same results from their attempts to bring happinesses and better conditions to others. It is but another added feature to the many that have led me to the conclusion that I am one of the “almost” people of the world. I have quite a talent for organizational promotion. I had one chance to use this in a professional way, and for a time I made a good success at it, and had the happiest period of my business life stemming from the actual work itself. But it did not last, There were many factors for its eventual failure, of which I can now properly ascribe many to myself; others I know were not attributable to my acts or omissions. I have been able to use this ability a considerable number of times in my various avocational interests, with quite a good bit of success, and happiness to myself resulting therefrom. I have an unbounded enthusiasm for life, and for anything for which I care at all or in which I believe. I am able to transmit this enthusiasm to others to a considerable extent in many cases, which may account for such successes as I have had in my organizational work. In fact, I think the one greatest attribute towards a fuller and richer life which I have is that same enthusiasm of the spirit. I know it has kept me mentally young; a sort of Peter pannish character often ridiculed; but, I believe, more often -7-
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