There's a local group of people doing and working and being happy, there's a regional level of people that's about the same size and same activity level, doing and working and being happy and there's a kingdom level of people, again about the same number of people, they know each other and they're doing and working and being happy... is any more worthy than the other?
What you're talking about in level five is a lot of what His Grace Laurelen told me about the job of Baron back when I was a newbie and would never in a million years believe that the job he was talking about would one day be mine. "You stand between the light and the dark" he said, which was a poetic way of talking about how you see behind the curtain, all the gears, the yuck and ick and nastiness, and you protect those wide-eyed newbies, active folks, officers, and jaded old timers from that nastiness and emphasize and encourage the good. Yea verily many times you're working hard to protect the very people who are resentful of your interference. It's not a different level. It's a job. And it's a very lonely job b/c everyone who is in such a position is alone (unless they are lucky enough to be in a couple position, in which case they are alone with their partner). The heady perfume is seeing how you can, sometimes, make someone's day, sometimes the work pays off and good things happen.
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regna
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Date: 2010-02-12 05:06 pm (UTC)What you're talking about in level five is a lot of what His Grace Laurelen told me about the job of Baron back when I was a newbie and would never in a million years believe that the job he was talking about would one day be mine. "You stand between the light and the dark" he said, which was a poetic way of talking about how you see behind the curtain, all the gears, the yuck and ick and nastiness, and you protect those wide-eyed newbies, active folks, officers, and jaded old timers from that nastiness and emphasize and encourage the good. Yea verily many times you're working hard to protect the very people who are resentful of your interference. It's not a different level. It's a job. And it's a very lonely job b/c everyone who is in such a position is alone (unless they are lucky enough to be in a couple position, in which case they are alone with their partner). The heady perfume is seeing how you can, sometimes, make someone's day, sometimes the work pays off and good things happen.