What is more (and I can hardly find words to tell you how important I think this), it is just the people who are ready to submit to the loss of the thrill and settle down to sober interest, who are then most likely to meet new thrills in some quite different direction.\u00c2\u00a0 The man who has learned to fly and become a good pilot will suddenly discover music; the man who has settled down to live in the beauty spot will discover gardening.<\/p>\n
This is, I think, one little part of what Christ meant by saying that a thing will not really live unless it first dies.\u00c2\u00a0 It is simply no good trying to keep any thrill: that is the very worst thing you can do.\u00c2\u00a0 Let the thrill go — let it die away — go on through that period of death into the quieter interest and happiness that follow — and you will find you are living in a world of new thrills all the time.\u00c2\u00a0 But if you decide to make thrills your regular diet and try to prolong them artificially, they will all get weaker and weaker, and fewer and fewer, and you will be a bored, disillusioned old man for the rest of your life.\u00c2\u00a0 It is because so few people understand this that you find many middle-aged men and women maundering about their lost youth, at the very age when new horizons ought to be appearing and new doors opening all round them.\u00c2\u00a0 It is much better fun to learn to swim than to go on endlessly (and hopelessly) trying to get back\u00c2\u00a0the feeling you had when you first went paddling as a small boy.<\/p>\n
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