This is the best part of being a neurotic. Celine describes all.

Céline: Anyway, I got really tired...let's go this way...of having this endless conversation with friends about how the world is falling to pieces. So I decided what I really wanted to do was to find things that could be fixed, and try to fix them, you know?

Jesse: You know, I always thought you'd be doing something cool like that. I did!

Céline: Thanks. I just feel really…really lucky to be doing a job I like.

Jesse: Yeah. You know, I actually alternated between thinking that...You know, everything is irrevocably screwed up, and that things might be getting better in some ways.

Céline: (Disapprovingly.) Better? How could you possibly say that?

Jesse: Well, I just mean, you know, like...I mean, I know it sounds weird, but there are things to be optimistic about.

Céline: OK...uh, I know your book is selling, which is great, I'm very happy for you, but let me break the news for you, OK? The world is a mess right now!

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Céline: (Voice rising, with a mocking tone.) I can’t see how you can say things are getting “a bit better.” OK, we're moving all our industry to developing nations. We can get cheap labor free of any environmental laws. (They stop, and she gesticulates to make her points.)

OK, the weapon industry is booming. Five million people die every year from preventable water disease. So, how is the world getting any better? I'm not getting angry, I'm not getting angry, but come on, I want to know, I'm interested!

Jesse: OK, I realize that there are a lot of serious problems in the world.

Céline: OK (sighing), thank you!

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Céline: But the reality of it is that the true work of improving things is in the little achievements of the day. And that's what you need to enjoy, just in that field.

Jesse: What, what do you mean, exactly?

Céline: Well, for example, I was working for this organization that helped villages in Mexico. And their concerns was how to get the pencils sent to the kid in these little country schools. I was not about big revolutionary ideas, it was about pencils. I see the people that do the real work and what's really sad, in a way, is that...the people that are the most giving, hard working and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader. They don't see any interest in superficial rewards, they don't care if...if their name ever appear in the press. They actually enjoy the process of helping others, they're in the moment.