By the end of all of it, I was really just being paid handsome sums of money to listen to older folks worry about very domestic parts of their lives. Their secrets. It's hard, you know, to find someone who'll really listen to one's problems at all, much less make an effort to understand.
[ Midnight tilts his head. ]
I like the other aspects of the job as well, of course. Wish I didn't have to leave it. But when it comes to what I was doing, the only part I ever concerned myself was treating others as though they're worthy of happiness, and I can do that anywhere. It's the trappings that change, not the goal.
[ ... So, he's thought a lot about what he does. Like, he does actually contemplate these things down to a pretty specific degree of nuance. (But also: yes, he enjoys sex.) ]
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By the end of all of it, I was really just being paid handsome sums of money to listen to older folks worry about very domestic parts of their lives. Their secrets. It's hard, you know, to find someone who'll really listen to one's problems at all, much less make an effort to understand.
[ Midnight tilts his head. ]
I like the other aspects of the job as well, of course. Wish I didn't have to leave it. But when it comes to what I was doing, the only part I ever concerned myself was treating others as though they're worthy of happiness, and I can do that anywhere. It's the trappings that change, not the goal.
[ ... So, he's thought a lot about what he does. Like, he does actually contemplate these things down to a pretty specific degree of nuance. (But also: yes, he enjoys sex.) ]