Thought 001
It is often easy to romanticize love - equating it with chocolates, flowers and cute little messages. Relegating it to feelings and heroisms with which it is often associated. Yet, loving can certainly be messy and often it does not have any return. Of course, I do not question the sincerity of those who truly express their love through these roses, toblerones and emoticons but only the capitalization of love. Recently, I have been asking myself: "how do we love when there is 'nothing' to love?" and "how do we love beyond loveability?" (with "nothing" I mean the absence of characteristics which falls under our usual categories and not to say that our core members does not have any loveable qualities). It has been more than six months since I arrived and started working at L'Arche and since last month I started my training to care for our more delicate core members. I have to admit that I was not prepared personally for this new chapter of my ...