Caring, caring can be an action, a material contribution, or only empathy. Care can be smart, it can be unnecessary and stupid. It can be both fussy, anxious, and light, joyful. It can be directed only to loved ones, it can be much wider.
Caring is not always a lot of time and money. A little mind and soul — and sometimes that’s enough.
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Care and concern
When a person loses initiative and sees in affairs not an opportunity for personal care, but a necessity, an obligation, when in his perception things begin to require his participation, “concerns” appear in his life. If this is exacerbated and superimposed on anxiety, preoccupation arises, a fussy and anxious form of caring.
Healthy caring is free and joyful, as the expression and obligatory side of true love: Love is joyful caring.
Shows of care and concern
- Caring as an emotion and experience: I empathize with you, groan, “sick” with my soul. I call and listen.
- Care as an action: he extended his hand, warmed up dinner, bandaged his leg, brought the bag.
- Care as a material contribution: help with real money, resources (apartment, car, etc.)
One type of care can be combined with another, or it can be manifested separately: emotional care can either include material care, or at the level of manifestation — or not.
Different people need different care: someone needs care-emotion, someone needs signs of attention, someone needs a material contribution. When deciding which type of care to choose, you should look at what a person really needs and what he loves and appreciates. See love languages
Direction and mode of care
You can take care of yourself, you can take care of others. You can take care of yourself, you can take care of someone else. You can drag your care like a yoke, or you can care with joy. Love is joyful care. See Direction and mode of care