Until now, besides choosing the chocolate or strawberry milk carton in the cafeteria, school was not much of a choice for me to make. Granted no one was holding a gun to my head when I decided to pursue a Bachelor of Science, but attending college was certainly an expectation of me instilled as an imperative checkpoint for a success life. The diminished regard I’ve felt during this journey was most apparent during finals of every semester. I would cry out to my roommates, “am i really living life” or “when will the preparing end” amongst many other cliches. I have unfortunately failed to fully appreciate my education. I want to starve for knowledge and no longer take it for granted. Nevertheless, I unquestionably enjoy learning, especially …show more content…
I was able to recognize everything that was being done from the numerous videos I had watched since high school but now I was there, in the room, and I faint. I was then guided, full of embarrassment, to the nurses’ station and handed a Coke Zero from their stash ordinarily reserved for the unsteady fathers and guests of the patients. I sat there and I thought. Is this truly what I am meant to do with my life? Who was I kidding thinking I could be the first doctor of my family? Maybe it is time to consider my plan B as more than a backup. And why do they only keep Coke Zero for the woozy? As I sat filling with self doubt and wishing I had all the sugary goodness of an old fashion Coke-Cola I reminded myself of all the reasons why this is exactly what I needed to do for the rest of my life in order to never again utter the words “I’m on my way to work.” I remembered the blissful warmth that filled me when I held the leg of Ashley during my first delivery and how the process of creating life has always found a way to fascinate me. To be able to embrace the beauties of life in the development of a healthy child would make the innumerable hours of studying I have already endured as well as the ones that have yet to be