Jed McKennaI don’t see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.
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As a caretaker, you are not saving anyone’s soul, but simply trying to help them get through the day. You may care for others, but you don’t do it because you see yourself as someone who needs to be saved. Instead, you care for them because that’s what you do. You go about your day working and making money to pay the bills and put food on the table. You don’t see yourself as a hero and neither does anyone else.
You don’t see yourself as capable of saving anybody because you don’t believe that anyone can be saved. You take care of people because that’s what you do. Your life is not about saving anybody from their own personal demons, but rather getting through the day and trying to make it through another one.
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