But I can speak with most authority on how this change of attitude affected me and my personal outlook on life. Perhaps， again， many of my friends did not notice the difference.
But I noticed it. That feeling of emptiness， into which I was pouring cocktails out of boredom， was filling up instead with a purpose： to live a full life with an awareness and an appreciation of other people. I do not pretend for a second that I have suddenly become a paragon. My faults are still legion and I know them.