be around are those who take a great interest in what’s hap-
pening around them. Listening to the radio the other
morning, the head of the American prison service was being
interviewed and was talking about penal reform, a subject I
have no interest in personally. (I don’t know anyone inside.)
Yo u c o u l d a rg u e t h a t I d i d n ’t n e e d t o k n o w a b o u t t h e
American prison service any more than the old woman needed
to know about PIN numbers, but I felt more stimulated and
alive and interested for it. And that can’t be bad.
TAKING AN INTEREST IN
THE OUTSIDE WORLD IS
ABOUT DEVELOPING YOU,
RATHER THAN FOR THE
WORLD’S BENEFIT.