II.I.III METAMORPHOSIS 2017… What a year. That year I learnt how to live. How to really live. That year, all those comfort zones holding me back went out the window. That year, the ball started rolling at hyper-speed and I kept on riding it like a pro. Lemme backtrack a bit… One of the best things about studying medicine is […]
II.I.II – Entropy
II.I.II ENTROPY Try as I might, change led its way through. It was inevitable. The momentum had been building up and something just had to give. The ball I was standing on had started rolling and before long it felt like I was trying to balance on it while it kept moving ahead at light-speed. Much like what had happened […]
II.I.I – Stasis
II.I.I STASIS I’ve always been somewhat of a living paradox. I’m not saying it in the quasi-pretentious way – you know, like those attention-seekers who always make it a point to highlight their own uniqueness and individuality only cause they’ve got nothing better to do. Or maybe I am – I am the main character of this story after all. […]
I.II.V – SWSD
I.II.V SWSD “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life” goes this one famous saying that pops up on my Facebook feed from time to time. Good stuff. Tear-jerking really. A bit vomit-inducing, perhaps. Scratch that – definitely vomit-inducing. I’m this close to needing a barf bag. Seriously, this close. The […]
I.II.IV – Reality Check
I.II.IV REALITY CHECK It only took a few days in med school for me to swallow my words and realise that I was completely wrong about everything. There I was, surrounded by the crème de la crème of university students, these overachieving brainiacs, struggling to keep afloat after I was thrown right into the deep end. Being the socialite that I am, […]
I.II.III – Starting Line
I.II.III STARTING LINE Picture this. It’s a crisp, sunny September day in 2015 and it also happens to be this fresh-faced idiot’s first day of med school, staring brightly at the battered, dilapidated building that would hold me hostage for the next two years – all full of goals and dreams and aspirations. Aaah – how amazing it all felt! […]
I.II.I – Anticipation
I.II.I ANTICIPATION My path to getting into medicine? Oof. It was just like a game of Pac-Man. Only the maze was more convoluted, the dots I had to eat were books and Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde were my assignments, exams, anxiety and a feeling of impending doom. In order to get into medicine, I’d need to sit for […]
I.I.IV – Eudaimonia
I.I.IV EUDAIMONIA Much like when I was a kid, I started re-questioning everything about everything. I had to start back from scratch, from the very foundation; tabula rasa. Philosophy, politics, science, society, every single thing. I let go of everything I thought I knew and started all over. “Who am I?” I’d ask myself over and over, much like when […]
I.I.III – Reignited
I.I.III REIGNITED They say that ignorance is bliss. They also say pineapples shouldn’t be on pizza. Or that downing an entire can of whipped cream at one go is bad for you. Clearly ‘they’ is an idiot and ignorance is not bliss. What I’m trying to say in all these convoluted terms is that if I’ve learnt anything at all, […]