...Something like that?

[Was it really work? He's not really sure he'd ever perceived it like that, but he was literally taking jobs and requests from everywhere he could.]

My daughter was sick. I was trying to find a cure for her. It involved a lot of research and travelling to places she couldn't go. I definitely kept myself busy, but maybe it wasn't really work. Just circumstance. That's all.

[Nier makes it sound so simple. It was, truthfully, anything but that.]