Danit was correct in that this charge will be challenging.
Jonathan Harris is a simple man. He owns a small store that his father opened many years ago, selling wine, cheese, bread, and other small, fine things. Jonathan took over the business when his parents retired to the south, and has been running it for three years now. It was what he always expected to do, growing up in Standish. Everyone in the town knows him, and they like him because they liked his mother and father, not necessarily because he is likeable. Jonathan is polite, but terse, speaking in short sentences and leaving the conversation as soon as possible. He is an unlovely man, rather gangly and already losing his hair. I would like to say that he is a thoughtful man, but there are no deep philosophies brewing in his silences. As I said, he is a simple man. He likes the quiet of the store, and when he leaves and returns to his small house, still furnished with the things his mother chose years ago, he enjoys the quiet there. In the evenings he will read, or sometimes watch movies, and then he will climb into bed.
He is not a bad person, and he is not unhappy. Jonathan simply does not expend the energy to care about anything outside his own daily concerns. It is my task to change that.
The difficulty will come in introducing Jonathan to someone who might have an interest in him. He so rarely leaves his hometown, and having known everyone there all his life, it will be a great deal of work to get him to look at anyone in a new light. Moreover, Jonathan does not yet feel the need to find someone to share his life with. He is content as he is, mostly because he does not try to think of what life might be with someone else.
I have decided to take some time to observe Jonathan. He is one of those who is not easy to read right away—perhaps there is depth to him that I have missed in my one day of watching. I will come to know him better before I act. Then I will know how best to help him. As usual, when I have learned more, I will share it with you.