Fulfillment

Today, as I soaked in the glory of fall break and mourned the soon death of it, I thought back to my jaunts in NYC, this summer.  I recalled the countless amounts of vendors that reached out to us, attempted for us to hear their pleas, and went unfulfilled.  Surely with the amount of faces that they see everyday, it makes no difference to them...right?  But I couldn't help but think that their goal is to get the consumer to first show interest in their products and second to buy the product, itself.  Beyond that they care not what we do with the product or think of it.  But what if we fail to get them to that point?  What if we simply walk past them without even acknowledging their presence?  Do they go through a sense of failure or lack of fulfillment?  Or does the amount of attempts cancel out those that would typically be labeled as "failures"?  I can't imagine being told, "Peel these one thousand potatoes perfectly" and feeling unfulfilled for failing at a few.  On the other hand, if I was told to peel just three potatoes perfectly, a single failure would count more towards determining overall fulfillment.  Who knows - maybe I'm thinking too hard about this.  Maybe the vendor down the street closes every night with the simple hope of making a net profit.  But I can't help but feel that our faces are floating around in their heads and are all adding up to some sort of sum - whether positive or negative.