The notions of a calling, of moral duty, of a life lived outside the imperatives of exchange value and les service des biens.. Watching a programme on children with HIV in Kenya. A man working with these children comments with beautiful concision:
"People say ' with all your qualifications and education why do you not get a better job'. They mean one with more money. But I am not doing this job just to collect a salary. It is a calling. I am not doing it because someone has to do it, but because I feel that I am the one to do it."
Thus, one is not just indifferently filling a structural position ('someone has to do it') but being faithful to something in yourself more than yourself, something which, were it refused or denied, would mean that you were unable to live with yourself. The man spoke with the radiant serenity of those who have, despite the alternative lures and pay-offs, chosen to be a free subject.