Just like any growing human being, the author transitions from a growing medical student to a reflective doctor that has to accept his fate from cancer. In part I of Kalanithi’s story, titled, “In Perfect Health I Begin,” he starts in his childhood (17). Before his diagnosis, he went through trials and tribulations of figuring out his goals for his life. His father was a doctor, he vowed to himself that he would never follow in those footsteps because of how often his father was not around. He grew from that decision because he realized that the questions that he often had about human life and death could only be answered in becoming a neurosurgeon and learning about those connections with the brain. He realized that following in his father’s