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Hector asked Jean-Michel if he was happy. This made Jean-Michel laugh. (Hector reflected later that this question tended to make men laugh but sometimes made women cry.)
‘I never ask myself that question, but I think I am. I do a job that I love, and that I know I do well, and, on top of that, I feel really useful over here. And as you’ve seen, I get on with the people here. We’re a real team.’ Jean-Michel drank some beer and then said, ‘Every day here has meaning.’
Hector found this very interesting because he also had a useful profession in his country, though sometimes, when all he saw were people who were unhappy for no apparent reason with no real disorders and whom he found it difficult to help, he wondered whether his life had any meaning, and that didn’t make him very happy.
‘Also,’ Jean-Michel said, ‘I feel loved for who I am.’
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