Paul Conti

It was a young man.

So when I was in training, he was very, very sick and needed to change certain choices and habits or he was not going to survive.

And I had no...

ability to help him whatsoever.

And I went and I saw a supervisor who was existentially trained, where here it's different from existentialism in the classic sense, but it's about really human connection, right?

And the guy was always wanting to teach me something, right?

Because I can get by in Spanish, but he was fluent in Spanish.

And he wanted to, he'd, oh, you traveled here and he'd say, you know, a word to see if I knew.

And I was always directing back to what I was supposed to do, right?

And the supervisor, I'll never forget, he said,

Let him teach you Spanish.

Come on.

So we had a couple sessions where if you look from the outside, you say, what is going on there?

They were Spanish lessons to me.

And then at some point, he brought in his mother.

And we hadn't brought her in yet.

And he was in part showing off

that he taught me something, right?

And I said a couple of things and he felt more powerful.

Like he was younger than me and he felt sick and disempowered, but he didn't feel that way once he taught me something and we showed it off to his mother, right?