Learning

Perhaps if we approach each other from the perspective of accepting that we all have unique life experience and that one experience is as valid as the next. We do tend to classify experiences as good or bad, perhaps they just are !

People often say that kids know so much today, do they really ? or do they just know different things and not know lots of things that we know or knew. We have huge expectations of people in all areas of life and if they are trained or qualified we tend to forget that they are like us, human with fears and vulnerability.

A nurse once told me of the trauma she experienced in A&E when she began working there. She was expected by all to be able to cope because she was trained..... There is no training that can prevent the feeling and trauma of many life events. This nurse felt that most nurses struggled with witnessing the pain and suffering of others. She felt she was a young girl with no real preparation for the shock and awfulness of some of the scenes she witnessed. We have similar expectations of police , ambulance, fire and social workers and lots more.

At the end of the day we have so much common vulnerability and profession or uniform do not exempt any from the impact of tragic tragic events. Perhaps we need to realise that we are all just people, struggling with life to a greater or lesser extent.