> But he has stood in the freezing cold to be an audience for a struggling street musician, accompanied the painfully self-conscious on outings to shops and res

> But he has stood in the freezing cold to be an audience for a struggling street musician, accompanied the painfully self-conscious on outings to shops and restaurants, and even shared cake with a lonely soul on a birthday. Damn. Respect--I feel this guy at a level. Sometimes I get coaching clients who need warm bodies to talk at, and I totally sympathize. Plus I would 100% use a guy like this myself in any number of situations. When your back is up the wall of "human-species-level problems" you have to get certain needs filled. It used to be popular to talk about pyramids of needs, and back then I was mentally adding dimensions to those pyramids all the time, the more I met and worked with people who needed things. One of the biggest needs was an "outside of me thing," and one of the forms that took was "another human," and when you really need it--it's quite often worth the money IMO. But it's also worth considering whether you need one that talks at you, or maybe one that just is. Respect to him for working in small ways to solve yet another blind spot in the way we (large group perspective) aren't quite able to take care of ourselves the way we think we should.