You know the play Three Sisters?” I nodded; only because it had been on the O level syllabus at school. “Much fun is made of the sister Irina, of her fanciful idea that work will give her life meaning, but I think she is onto something. I have always thought it rather unfair, how disappointed she is by life in the end. Because, if the nature of the work is right, there is great reward to be found. The feeling that one has a place in the world, that one is useful in some small way, is not to be underrated.
