THERE IS NOTHING GLAMOROUS ABOUT BEING A MEDICAL STUDENT
I hate it when Fine Arts students, Engineering students, Commerce students, Law students etc play down what they do when they hear that I’m a medical student - “Oh no, it’s not as cool/hard/intense as med.”
DUDE. MATE. GIRL. FRIEND.
ARE YOU HEARING YOURSELF?
You are downplaying your achievements, skills, talents, effort, blood sweat tears because you think what you do isn’t as “worthy” as medicine?
You listen to me, you Arts student - we need people like you in the world to make art. Who else gives us music, beautiful photographs, design, poetry, entertainment, makes the world an aesthetically pleasing place? The world thinks it doesn’t need another artist - and this is why WE NEED THEM.
You listen to me, Law student - DO NOT pretend that you do not slave away at night with your countless readings, trying to make sense of what’s happening. DO NOT deny that you might have some dream of solving some injustice in the world - and if you don’t that’s FINE too - we don’t get into our fields always because we have some noble self-sacrificing goal to attain, sometimes the goal finds us. LET IT FIND YOU.
You listen to me, you Engineering student - just because buildings don’t give you as much grief as humans do does not reduce the amount of work you put into structural balance and beauty. DO NOT let them tell you you are unnecessary.
YOU LISTEN TO ME, FUTURE TEACHERS. I love you. I love that you will one day educate society’s future. I love that years ago a great teacher believed in me, and I still grief over that teacher who didn’t - so GO AND MAKE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE.
DON’T be “modest” about your work because I’m a medical student. I am not mocking you for telling you that your work is cool - IT IS COOL. I could never do such a thing. So be PROUD of what you do. DO what you do. We can’t all be doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, missionaries etc. YOU DO YOU, and stop telling me what you do is “not as cool as medicine” because YOU, and by extension, what YOU do, might be more, but certainly no less, than medicine.
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