LOVE AS A VACCINE AGAINST LONELINESS

Every day I touch human pain - physical, tangible, sometimes almost screaming. The work of a doctor teaches not to lose composure, but still there remains something that cannot be cured with pills or injections - the emptiness that hides in the eyes.

I often think: what do we really need treatment for? Fatigue? Stress? Back pain or high blood pressure? Or because we fall asleep in silence and wake up without someone's breathing next to us?

Love is not chemistry. It is biology, psychology, spiritual anatomy. It is a complex, sometimes painful, but necessary vaccination against loneliness. It causes fever, speeds up the pulse, sometimes knocks you off your feet... But it is what makes us truly alive.

I still believe that a person is the best medicine for another person. Not in the pharmacy sense. And in the very present - when you come home and they are waiting for you. When they don't ask you what's wrong, but just take your hand and hold it.

Sometimes even a doctor needs therapy. With tenderness. With words. With presence.

I'm still searching. But not for a patient. But for a man with whom you can be silent - and not feel the silence.