The narrator tells the story of a thirty-year-old bachelor who is depressed because he is disliked by his family. He tells the young man that he is a person who does not really care what other people think of him. He says that his sister is also disliked by him. The young man tells the narrator that his brother does not like him and that he has a job he loves and it is not idle. The narrator says that it is up to the individual to decide whether he wants to progress in life or not. It is not about money and work, he says, but about each person's own desires. He also says that if it is because of his coming out, he thinks that he must be helpless, but if it was because of a romantic relationship, he would think that he would be very helpless.