O cuidado com a vida

Abstract

When reflecting upon the theme I would write about in this Editorial, two apparently disconnected readings-Qual o tempo do cuidado? Humanizando os cuidados de Enfermagem (1) (How much time for care? Humanizing Nursing care) and Ser pesquisador, ser editor, ser autor (2) (Being a researcher, being an editor, being an author)-led me to think about our daily life as professors and as researchers in Nursing. I thought about how we hurry in order get our research projects finished in time for meeting the deadlines established by the financing agencies, we hurry to have our students finish their theses and dissertations within the set time limit, we hurry to produce the adequate amount of articles with appropriate quality for publication in periodicals with international circulation. I could go on listing a series of other activities that have in the pace of time their main manager. I also wondered what leads us to live our academic time within this particular logic of time-living. Are we reacting to institutional or personal demands of competitiveness and productivity? Or is it that the race against the clock has been incorporated into our lifestyle in such a way that we have lost the ability to realize that, little by little, we forgot how it is to live that kind of time which, spontaneously, in our everyday relations, got us closer to others, humanized us, by making sense of our actions, be them to teach, to do research, to care, or simply to live?