The third person in the room

A: This past year you’ve helped me so much in in getting better. I scarcely know how to express my gratitude. B: For me, it has had but/only added value. ( no truble or cost ). It belongs to that class of endeavors whose reward is intrinsic. Much like genuine social exchange that requires no gaun, profit, utility or expectation of return; the act is its own fulfillment. Even when viewed in a strictly utilitarian light (in terms of self-interest or being rewarding), it has yielded benefits for me. ( inner speech: Why is this gratitude rewarding? not in the usual sense: but something gets complete, or meets its telos (forming a loop). ) Yet I am grateful that you choose to recognise, and axknowledge it. So, truly, thank you. It feels like need here: a form of feedback of a ‘third kind.’ Not directed toward me as an individual, but toward the function, or the "Method" itself. By method, I mean the methododology being developed. A hypothesis being chiselled. A healing method being carved, out of bature-Real (nature-reality). An entiry, is to be regontised in this situ. (a function, autonomous of the human agents who enact it). It is a Method(ology) awaiting discovery. Just as you became a vehicle for its further development, so too have I become a vehicle for its unfolding. It stands apart from either of us. I am merely its agent, and so are you ! Perhaps, then, it is the Method itself that now thanks us both: for having been set into motion, rather than left to languish in forgetfulness or remain forever undiscovered. It is gifting the two involved in its circuit, a feeling of reward. It is recognised, twice here at two levels, by its agents or enactors, ( units, forces, drivers). (Admittedly, I have drifted into abstraction.)