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We ♡ nostalgia

1. Everything is Embarrassing - Sky Ferreira

2. Mr. Rager - Kid Cudi

3. R U Mine? - Artic Monkeys

4. Wavey - Allan Kingdom ft. Spooky Black

5. Breezeblocks - alt-J

6. Shades of Cool - Lana Del Rey

7. Habits (Stay High) - Tove Lo

8. Teleport 2 Me, Jamie - WZRD, Desire

9. Lost - Frank Ocean

10. Retrograde - James Blake

People talk all the time about how nurses are Superheroes

The media

Social media

Patients

Their families

I don’t feel like I’m a hero,

And I thinks that’s ok,

I say it for the reality of what I do each day:

I speed through a marathon shift that often feels like it will never end,

I clock in some days and wonder where all the time went,

All the excitement I once had in nursing school of becoming a nurse

Then I clock out some days,

Where I think this was an ordinary day - no one died on my watch, no admissions, no rushed discharges, no codes,

And I can breathe again in the ordinary way

Then, some days I find I crave the adrenaline of fast interventions, the heightened sense of chaos and urgency and high stakes it takes to save a life -

And I feel re-centered

But I am not a superhero

No specialty is superior to another,

At any given time, I have been humbled by this

I am simply doing what I am trained to do,

I am one piece of the extraordinary puzzle of integral caregivers working to either save a life, or gently let go of one.

For the rest of the world it’s a view of superheroes,

But for me it’s an ordinary day

You don’t have to be a super hero to stand out,