Qualitative research is a way to learn from and about humans. Its beauty lies in its multiplicity of expressions and of the acknowledgment and celebration of a singular human life. Its strength lies in its honesty, i.e. in dealing with researchers’ biases and in discussing the researchers’ relationship to their study participants, rather than pretending that an objective study is possible. For too long, statistics have ruled the world. It was in the Positivist period of the 1930s that human knowledge became quantifiable. It was also the period when humans needed to achieve a statistically significant number in order to even be considered for a study. To me, it is a cruel view of the world: the world in which people who are unique simply do not count; the world in which human knowledge and experiences that have been accumulated over thousands of years have been disregarded and reduced to tests and questionnaires; the world into which you have to fit in rather than understand and enrich with your own experience and perspective.