disability metaphor, translated, politics mention(?)
them: "i dunno i just feel like a tiny cog in some huge machine [in hebrew: a tiny screw in the system]; what i did didn't really help"
me: "well you're not, like, an all powerful dictator. you work within a system. and it's better to be [a tiny screw in a big system] than to be like me, one of the screws that's still in the bag inside the hardware drawer"
re: disability metaphor, translated
another quote from that conversation is that i said "look at me! i haven't been productive in three years!"