Care and attention

The word ‘meditation’ is related in English to the word ‘medicine’. And the prefix ‘med’ implies care and attention. Care and attention. If you go for a check-up or you go to a hospital emergency room, what you want and need is someone to care for you. Now there are different kinds of caring aren’t there. There’s superficial caring or there’s the caring where you think that person really cares, they are not just doing their job, they care. And the difference between superficial care and serious personal care is attention – does that person bring attention to the work of caring?