Wednesday, 19. August 2009, 02:40:51
Ok, I wanted to post something on my birthday but I’m running out of ideas so I decided to use this place – for the first time – as a diary or whatever you call it.
My life has been under substantial changes related to what I do and what I am. I just finished a 2 year relationship, which of course affects anyone when there is this huge amount of intimacy and love, even more than expected. What’s weird is that I went to a walk on a park with my mom last Sunday and while walking I remembered that the last time I had been there I was walking and insanely dreaming with my ex-boyfriend way before he knew I had a huge crush on him. So it was interesting to realize what I imagined, what it was, the fun and learning and, inevitably, the end. I am such a different person now than I was before. And many of these changes...I owe him for that.
Right now I’m actually enjoying focusing on my career, which never occurred before. So, apart from uninteresting classes everyday, I have to go 4h a week to poor community houses to diagnose Hypertension and Diabetes with a friend as part of a big project that will be awesome to my CV. I just got published in a major medical national magazine with an article about nails… and that made me happy too. Apart from that I’m still working with my mom twice a week on ergometry (exercise test part of cardiology) and learning with her echocardiogram skills, both really important and not commonly found on average med students. A teacher of mine actually said I was one of the persons that knew EKG the most (even more than most doctors) in the city in front of many people during a meeting. In spite of it all, I`m not so sure I want Esthetic Dermatology as I wanted before and not knowing exactly what I wanna follow drives me crazy...
But I’m back to my Japanese classes and I’m also volunteering to do shifts in hospitals with 2 different doctors during the night, not to mention a huge dermatology project involving the analysis of skin cancer.
Yes, Its going to be a really busy semester for me, but good in a lot of (professional) ways…
My Japanese mom was actually the first to send me happy birthday wishes (because they are 12h ahead, of course). Unfortunately, things here in Brazil were less joyful and my mom was sad because I didnt want any cake, candles etc. I felt horrible cause my parents are the sweetest thing alive...So in the evening I took a candle, came into her room holding it and said: you know why I wont make any wishes this year? Because I have everything I need.
And then I blew out the birthday candle...
So...some say the more things change, the more they stay the same.
And even though I`ve been doing a lot of thinking, some things do remain the same for me… I’m still the gay guy who loves his friends and family, love music, is a vegetarian and tries hard to take care of his body. A guy with dreams, worries and interestingly fearless sometimes.
I’m stronger. But I’ve realized not all my changes are necessarily improvements. I can also hurt and be hurt. But the thing is… no matter how badly a thing is hurting us...sometimes letting it go hurts even worse.