Handling Life

"The stuff of our lives doesn't change.  It is we who change in relation to it." Molly Vass

Are you tempted sometimes, as I am, to think that your life will be able to happen once you are not caregiving?  Does it feel sometimes like you are in a place where your energy and focus is going toward another person's journey, and not your own?  I think it is human, and therefore appropriate, to think those thoughts sometimes.  But, the truth is, the real 'stuff' of life -- dealing with the themes of life -- are ever present.  We might be caregiving because we have always had a tendency to look out for others' needs before our own, or because it is a distraction from what we really need to tend to in our own inner life.  Rather than thinking of caregiving as an obstacle toward our life's goals; what if we think of caregiving as an avenue to deal with what is ours to deal with.