azurelunatic | stress at work

And remember, children, when we take an oath to help the people of the world, this means that every now and then, you will make a telephone call to some woman who has just suffered this incredible shock to her world, and her suffering and lonliness are just as bad as the suffering and lonliness of anyone else out there.

And even though you two talk on the phone for twenty minutes, and she's xenophobic as hell because she's from Kansas, you are still called to help her.

...*sigh* I don't want the world. I just want your half.