The Struggle to be a Good Caregiver
When younger I tried to open up my heart, to be able to actually love others by working with the elderly, and the dying, in our community. Working with someone day after day, seeing them at their best, and their worst, as well as taking care of bodily needs, is a deep form of intimacy. Also, those I worked with experienced my own struggle to be a good caregiver, and saw how I would fail. It was a relationship of mutual acceptance of each other’s human fo
