Yes. It is the product of your own work, a manifestation of your own skills and heart. I think that means more than whatever improved quality can be achieved through machinery.

[ Some truths are universal across all existences. ]

It does. I will keep it a memory and live knowing I still have my duty.

[ When she comes back, he'll still be roughly in the same seated position as before. He can't digest things, but that doesn't mean he cannot eat things. ]

Do you have scones and croissants in your world as well?