The day felt heavy. I heard the horrors that mankind is capable of. I even wonder, how are we capable of inflicting such pain to another human being? How can we show such disregard for someone else's life? I remember as a kid when my mother read the Bible she mentioned a passage that read: "Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,..."; and another one that said: "brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents..." I guess Someone was able to foresee that the Homo sapiens had some character flaws.
Today, I saw the pain, that pain that awakens in you a deep sense of compassion. I felt the grief that only humans are capable of experiencing. The grief that as a deep lake you can't see the bottom, or like the open ocean in which you can't see its boundaries.
As the positive person I am, I decided to focus on the person that I had in front of me, and not the stories. What I saw, moved me to my core and it made me renew my faith in mankind. I saw resilience at its finest. I questioned how could someone go through so much, and still strive every day to manage to cope, to raise children, to go to work, to go to school, to attend church and to cook dinner. If someone sees them when they leave my office they will think they don't have a care in the world. I saw strength, to a level that I envied. I saw love, love for a life that hasn't been fair. I felt blessed, because I was there for them, because I was able to listen, so they could release some of the pressure; because I held their hand while they cried, because I didn't judge, because I was able to give them comfort and hope, and because I was able to help them open a window to their soul so they could peak and see their strengths.
I have so much to learn from my patients. Today my love for my profession was renewed, and my day experiences reemphasized why I do what I do.
Tonight, I will pray for them, because I could only do so much, but there is a Being that has no limits.
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