#ags2018

I just came back from a quick 2-night-1-day trip to Orlando, FL for the 2018 AGS (American Geriatrics Society) Annual Scientific Meeting! It was amazing. We got to slow down a bit, learn some, meet new people, bond with our residency’s small but growing and mighty geriatrics team... and I gotta say, I very much enjoyed chillaxing on my king sized bed watching Food Network. Sigh. This is what life could be. But it’s okay - I always tell myself, I wouldn’t enjoy it as much if I really had this every day. I tell myself this for now, but I deserve more for the future... Don’t ever sell yourself short.

After I came back, when I was posting my AGS picture up on IG with the conference hashtag, I flipped through some other posts via the hashtag, and became jealous and started comparing myself with this one fellow (?) from Harvard. All my past insecurities came back to haunt me. Here she is, looking like she has everything - presenting a poster AND a talk, enjoying dinner with a large-ish group of people. But then I realize what I’m doing. And honestly, it doesn’t take me too long to stop going down the spiral.