The second reason for the attraction of like to like is the affinity resulting from having the same kind of occupation.

• A farmer who has been tilling the soil all day, will want to be with other farmers in the evening with whom he can talk about the crops. He does not want to sit among literary people.
• A soldier prefers to be with other soldiers.
• A sportsman wishes to be with sportsmen; he will not want to be among the learned in whose society he feels out of place.
• A man with a taste for literature always seeks other literary people.
• A musician likes the society of musicians. I have experienced this myself when sometimes there were Indians in my audience, even people from my own province, who proved to be less appreciative than the Western musicians who were there. The latter did not perhaps understand the words I was singing, but because they were musicians their interest in the music made them akin to its being.