Love the child in you

It's weird how you start to think differently of people and communication when you work with mentally disabled people. You start by asking the clients simple questions about feelings and thoughts to ask those questions yourself too. World and all the people in it start to look less complicated. It is important to realize that you can ask yourself these simple questions as How do I feel, Why do I feel like this, What is the reason that I feel like this and What can I do about this feeling...

You start to make relationships inside your mind more easy and uncomplicated. You start to realize that the things you have imagined as very hard things between you and the important people beside you, they are actually very very simple - you just have to make them more simple. In the end it is simply about pure child-like, basic feelings: love, hate, sorrow, hunger, tiredness and so on. We tend to make things between each other so so so troublesome and difficult.

It is healthy, I think, to work with children or mentally disabled persons. You start growing again: growing towards being a child. And this is a very fine thing in many ways.