Holden's Motivation/Motives

I am intrigued and impressed with the past meetings I have had with Holden. He has managed to to leave me in astonishment. His past and relationships could server as an inspiration or contribution to who he is today and probably explains his motivation and motives for doing something meaningful or nonmeaningful in his life. And that is what i'm trying to depict about him in this next meeting. He settled in as always and got comfortable befrore we sarted. I then ask, "Holden, can you tell me what you did recently that was meaningful to you in some way?" He replied, "Let's see, well, I left Pencey before I started coming here and-". I cut him off and asked my next question, "Why? What was your motive?" He replies, "Ducks." Ducks? Really? "How?", I ask. Initially, I thought he was kidding. But then I saw the seriousness in his eyes. I let him reply, "Well, do you ever wonder where the ducks go when the lake freezes during the winter? In a way, the ducks are like me, I guess. And the lake freezing are like my problems and all. This motivated me from leaving Pencey because the ducks go away from their problems and that was what I was doing, running away from my problems." His anwser was completely unexpected to me. In most cases dealing with motivation, people motivate people. The idea of using a comparison with his life was indeed intelligent, however I do not agree with Holden's idea of "running away from your problems" I tell Holden, "But, don't you think it's better to face your problems?" The only thing he said to my question was, "Um, I don't know." And that concluded our meeting. Hopefully and what I greatly recommend Holden do is try to contradict what he said about problems in life and comprehend what I said about them.