I guess every person has somebody who depends on him or her. Sometimes, it can’t be helped that it gets too much for one person to carry. The responsibility. I spent much too many hours lying in beds and staring at ceiling fans, wondering who I am to depend to at my times of need, while other people depend on me. I do not have a ready answer and may well be the nonexistent answer has always been my personal choice. But I still believe that there is a silver lining in all these somewhere. I still don’t regret any sacrifice, any seemingly wrong decision done for the sake of taking on this vocation. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
“From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other – above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”
— Albert Einstein