“I started this job a few months ago. For years I worked in the...

“I started this job a few months ago. For years I worked in the hospitality industry, but I got tired of giving people food and alcohol in exchange for money.  It’s been so nice for me to help someone in a more human way.  For Nico, I assist with everything apart from her medical issues.  It involves a lot of guessing.  I try to put myself in her situation and ask how I’d like it.  Calm is important.  I always stay very calm.  We obviously can’t have crazy long conversations, but it’s kinda enough.  I’m more of an energy person anyway.  The crazy thing is that Nico’s exactly twice my age.  She’s forty-six and I’m twenty-three, which also happens to be the age when she was first diagnosed.  Back then she was so similar to me.  We both travelled the world.  We both loved freedom, and beach time, and gypsy life, and small rebellions.  And now here we are, sitting in the sun, in the exact same place, but for two different reasons.”
(Berlin, Germany)