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Azimuth Jack Boyle The most important thing I think I’ve learned about myself is that I have untapped reserves of patience that I didn’t know I had. Working with the elderly can be slow-paced and sometimes frustrating, but working with large groups of children can be even more so. Learning how patient I can be with people when I need to be helps me a lot. If it seems a small realization, I would say it is hardly. I’ve always wanted to be a teacher and a writer, both of which take a lot of patience and control. To learn that I can stay positive and attentive even when it seems hopeless or frustrating is a virtue I thought I might not possess.
Sometimes I wondered if I was really helping them at all—how much can a game of dominoes or a few pictures do for a person? But I came to realize that I helped those people through changing their environment and giving them an opportunity to interact with a different person.
It was the first time I felt like I had my own space to think to live.
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