I.II.II FRIENDSHIP September 2015 was a month of many firsts for me. I was nineteen, making my way downtown, strutting my stuff and painting the town red. Me and my trusty leather jacket, all hip and trendy. Like what the cool kids say. Cause I‘m just that cool. I’d be a med student in a few weeks’ time and I was […]
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, […]
I.I.II – Ex-Father
I.I.II EX-FATHER My father was never a man of many words. Unless those words were “no” or “you had that coming”. For the better part of my life he could have just been the family butler with whom I’d be forced to hang out with on occasion, but that’s about it. He’d come home late from work, pick a fight […]
I.I.I – Awakening
I.I.I AWAKENING It was just like any other day. I had just come back from school when – CUT! Oof, bored already. Jeez! Right from the very first sentence. I apologise. Let’s start over and just cut right down to it, shall we? In the weirdest way possible. Here it goes. Ready? Okay! I’m a massive Grey’s Anatomy fanatic. To […]
FOREWORD
FOREWORD Welcome to my mind all you crazy, beautiful people! Man, this feels weird. So weird! I never wrote for anyone other than myself before. I started writing this during my days in med school from 2015 to 2020, recounting my tales in and out of hospital. Let’s see how this goes… I pick up a pen and jot down […]