I yam what i yam,
When you say that Moo responded to people with "endless compassion, understanding, patience and, yes, love", I know you are convinced and nothing will change your mind. It doesn't matter, but I will post something very, very personal here for the sake of other readers.
I used to work in a job where I delt directly with people in crisis situations. Some people were extremely emotionally distressed, crying, howling, hysterical, yelling, collapsing on the group in grief. Some people were psychotic, out of touch with reality, confused, incoherent, very, very unstable.
Some people were drug-addicted, violent, verbally abusive and would even throw punches at me. It could be very scary and upsetting.
I think I had a lot worse to deal with than Old Moo!! And yet I acted towards all these people with compassion, talking quietly to them, reassuring them, patting them on the shoulder and making them cups of tea, handing them tissues, etc. All the time being extremely respectful towards their family or friends and co-ordinating help for these people with other staff members. Phew.
People I worked with would comment to me "you are so nice to everyone, all the time." I would reply, "look, believe me, I'm like that at work, but I have plenty of bad moments at home. I get grumpy, just like anyone else. I get angry sometimes, doesn't everyone?"
One of my friends inadvertently had cause to see me at work one day and she said "wow, you are amazing. I don't know how you do it. I couldn't stand having to be around those people... they swear at you and everything... but you don't even bat an eye."
My reply was "ummm, yeah, you get used to the yelling and swearing and the rest, in the end you don't even think of those things... They are just part of the job. You even laugh about it with other staff, on your tea-break. You can't take any of that stuff personally."
I genuinely did feel sorry for the people I had to deal with. (About 90% of them, anyway.) It wasn't for me to judge them, I just had a job to do. I am a compassionate person, but I'm not a saint. Never-the-less, I was able to show care and compassion indiscriminately while I was on the job. The more experience I had, the easier it got. After years and years, it becomes second nature to act compassionately, it isn't even all that hard to do.
Moo is just a guy with a job to do. He only has to do it for a few hours at a time. He gets plenty of tea-breaks. He is a performer. In another life, if he were better looking, he would probably be one of those illusionists who perform on stage in Vagas.
No-one is throwing punches at him or swearing at him. He has it easy! The people who come to him already believe in him. He does ridicule people and make fun of them, in front of everyone, which is something I would never do to my clients. I would have lost my job, if I had done that.
When you say that Moo responded to people with "endless compassion, understanding, patience and, yes, love", I know you are convinced and nothing will change your mind. It doesn't matter, but I will post something very, very personal here for the sake of other readers.
I used to work in a job where I delt directly with people in crisis situations. Some people were extremely emotionally distressed, crying, howling, hysterical, yelling, collapsing on the group in grief. Some people were psychotic, out of touch with reality, confused, incoherent, very, very unstable.
Some people were drug-addicted, violent, verbally abusive and would even throw punches at me. It could be very scary and upsetting.
I think I had a lot worse to deal with than Old Moo!! And yet I acted towards all these people with compassion, talking quietly to them, reassuring them, patting them on the shoulder and making them cups of tea, handing them tissues, etc. All the time being extremely respectful towards their family or friends and co-ordinating help for these people with other staff members. Phew.
People I worked with would comment to me "you are so nice to everyone, all the time." I would reply, "look, believe me, I'm like that at work, but I have plenty of bad moments at home. I get grumpy, just like anyone else. I get angry sometimes, doesn't everyone?"
One of my friends inadvertently had cause to see me at work one day and she said "wow, you are amazing. I don't know how you do it. I couldn't stand having to be around those people... they swear at you and everything... but you don't even bat an eye."
My reply was "ummm, yeah, you get used to the yelling and swearing and the rest, in the end you don't even think of those things... They are just part of the job. You even laugh about it with other staff, on your tea-break. You can't take any of that stuff personally."
I genuinely did feel sorry for the people I had to deal with. (About 90% of them, anyway.) It wasn't for me to judge them, I just had a job to do. I am a compassionate person, but I'm not a saint. Never-the-less, I was able to show care and compassion indiscriminately while I was on the job. The more experience I had, the easier it got. After years and years, it becomes second nature to act compassionately, it isn't even all that hard to do.
Moo is just a guy with a job to do. He only has to do it for a few hours at a time. He gets plenty of tea-breaks. He is a performer. In another life, if he were better looking, he would probably be one of those illusionists who perform on stage in Vagas.
No-one is throwing punches at him or swearing at him. He has it easy! The people who come to him already believe in him. He does ridicule people and make fun of them, in front of everyone, which is something I would never do to my clients. I would have lost my job, if I had done that.