Behind The First Day of Spring

The sun rises through a winter veil.... And I am here. Safe.

Which is incidentally my birthday! Yay! But... A moment of silence for MH370. May there be peace.

Spring denotes change, and there has been a lot of new stuff in my life.

Firstly, I had one of my first major exams just before the Easter break. The fact is that those exams were not exactly study extensive, and there's another big one right after Easter. I feel like I've wasted the first week of the break doing very unproductive stuff, such as Youtube, Twitter and Facebook. The evil death trap trilogy of social media.

I know that I should be converting my time into something useful, such as learning a new skill (coding, dabbling in stocks, gymming, ANYTHING really). But when you step into a period of nothingness after 3 months of monotonous routine, you tend to like doing nothing for awhile.

~Today I don't feel like doing anything~

Maybe even fishing. But at the Thames....?

To be fair, I have been doing SOME stuff. Being a medical student, one does not really expect me to be bothered with fields outside the sciencey fiencey medical schmedical. But honestly, while you have the chance and the time (relative to other years at least), why not diversify? Be different from the run of the mill. Explore the unfamiliar. Test the waters, before medicine completely takes over my life. Besides, I heard that business skills are important everywhere, and round-tables and dialogues are perfect opportunities to know the top shots in the different industries. They succeeded with their experience, so we should learn from them, shouldn't we? Why mess with a winning formula?

I'll tell you why. Because we are all same in the way that we are all unique. We work better in different environments and different methods, and resonance only works with one particular frequency: your own. What works for them may not work for you. You can't use a cookie recipe to bake a cake.

Why am I using all these analogies?

However, they were very nice people to talk with, and they did have very good insights and advice. One I particularly insight that was echoed by many of the leaders was that you should always do what you love. The paycheck is just a bonus. Especially in the field of medicine, where healing is it's own reward.

Even though I love my course (well maybe not the lecturers(some), although the content is just amazing), I do wish to go around and explore. Maybe I'll find a second love. Secondary to medicine anyway.

With a new year, changes abound. So many new chapters, so little time....

I'll end it here with a poem:

Breaking Randomly

It's funny

how you can become

a poet

by line

breaking randomly.

Cya later in the break! I'm gonna update pretty soon.