Now

Doctors spend a lot of time focused on the future, planning it, working toward it. But at some point you start to realize your life is happening now. Not after med school, not after residency, right now. This is it. It’s here. Blink and you’ll miss it. Even though I'm not a doctor right now, everyone is just thinking about and living for the next step. For example, "I'm only here so I can get into med school, so I can get into residency, so I can be a doctor." I'm working on constantly trying to live here in the now, but balancing that with the fact that I will be trying to get into med school after next year. I want to be content yet striving for more (Thanks Emily!) in all aspects of my life. In the words of my friend Linnea, "be here, now."