Andy Stumpf

A traditional, we'll call it an Earl Grey, a very traditional English tea.

If you put it in water and you just dip it in there, it'll change the color a little bit.

But if you put it in there for hours, it is going to steep and it is going to become a darker and darker and darker and darker color of water.

Is it still water?

Chemically, sure.

Are there a lot of additives to that?

Is the taste going to be different?

Is it going to be changed because of the amount of time they spent in that environment, the tea?

Yes.

You are the teabag in this situation.

You are the person.

Your occupation is unique in the fact that you constantly interface with these people.

And that is going to have an impact on you.

That is going to have an impact on the way that you view the world, the way that you view humanity, because you are seeing a side of the coin of humanity that –

Almost nobody does.

And you're seeing it at such a level so consistently, so constantly.

How could it not change your perspective?

Now, if you recognize that's happening, that's a good thing, right?

Understanding where you are and maybe why you are starting to feel this way is a good thing.

Letting that turn into hate is not going to help you.