Spinning Plates...

Rating: 10/10 (18 February 2010)

I don't see why we're supposed to think he's such a stunted guy for liking that lifestyle? (That's how the other characters see him, anyway. He tries to make connections and in the grand scheme of things, fails.) I mean sure, the firing is an unpleasant obligation that goes along with that existence, but you do the best you can. I hope there are no doctors out there who enjoy telling people they have cancer, but someone has to do it, and in both capacities, their task is to try to make the process as painless as possible.
You're either a family person or a career person. You can't achieve top score at both, and all of his acquaintances choose to look down on him because he's not around more? That's *their* hangup, not his! It's a tough job trying to keep all the plates of life spinning, and he did the best he could.
It's a snapshot into the transient lifestyle a la "Lost in Translation", but this just worked better for me, because it's more pragmatic. Colour me heartless, I guess... :-/