The narrator explains that he has always been calm and collected since he was a young child. He says that he used to be very good at his job, which was to paint and to get praise for his work. Now, however, he is very bad at it, because he has a passion for it. He admires the paintings of an elementary school girl, who has just come to the studio to learn how to paint. The narrator says that the girl's painting is not bad, but that it is "a bit basic" and that he should not judge it because it is a passion. He feels very excited when he looks at her painting. He asks the teacher if the girl fell asleep, and the teacher says