When I was in kindergarten, my teacher told my mother that I was going to become a doctor and my sister was going to marry a doctor.
I know that this was simply in jest, but when I was growing up, all I wanted to do was to become a doctor. I want to go to college and get a degree in pre-med and then go to graduate school, get my M.D. and specialize in neurosurgery.
To some it looks like I have it all planned out. To an extent I do.
Tonight my mother and I were talking about medicine and why I wanted to become a neurosurgeon. What answer can I give? How can I say, “I want to become a neurosurgeon because that is what I’ve wanted to become my entire life?” How can I say, “I know that out of all the fields in medicine, neurosurgery, for me, is the most interesting and it is the one field that I know I want to spend the next 15 years of my life working on to learn. It is the one thing that I know I will be able to get out of bed at whatever time and I will look forward to helping the people who need it most.”
I am honestly just at a loss of what I can tell my mother. I know people sometimes say, “She/He/They won’t understand.” Truly, I think this is one of those times. My explanation would simply not be good enough.
Robert Fritz, an American author, once stated, “If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.” I know that I have not limited my choices. I know that I will not compromise for what I want professionally.
What I want the most is to honestly become a neurosurgeon so that I will be able to help people that not many are able to in the first place.
kcopp
