Poetic License

So, I found a new way to keep up with all the news I have no time to read…a very useful thing this RSS is.  I love the idea but wonder about the reality.  Anyway- one feed I now subscribe to is “This I Believe”, an NPR podcast.  In Colin Bates’ “Our Vulnerability is our Strength”, a young man talks about his new job as the “assistant” to two profoundly cognitively disabled men. He helps them wake up in the morning, get dressed, eat, work, go through their day and then retire at night to sleep.  The author says he does this work because he was living an unhealthy, unselfish life. He feels like just being with the two men, his “bosses”, and encouraging them, gives his life purpose. All for $9.00 an hour.  I love the “This I Believe” series on NPR and am constantly reaffirmed by people’s good morals and beliefs.