“When you are a caregiver, you often have to greet people who express the painful feeling of ‘missing’ their life. Divorce, professional failure, irreconcilable alienation with children… The motive is different, but the verdict is always the same: “Doctor, I have failed my life” », said the doctor-novelist Baptist Bollen on France Inter, December 10, 2018. Can we really miss our lives? What can motivate us to one day make such a final, hopeless judgment about ourselves?
To fail is to fail to achieve the goal you have set for yourself. Thus, the feeling of “failure” is subjective. it depends on each person’s goals, the criteria that we believe are the key to success. However, the regrets expressed at the end of life will always be the same, says Bronny Warr, an American palliative care nurse who has gained her patients’ trust in this delicate subject in the last weeks of their lives.
Source: Le Figaro
