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Never lose heart.

"I'm tired and it's probably my fault." "Why do you say that?" "Maybe I'm taking more than I can chew." "Is that even your responsibility?" "Some are, some are not." "Then why do you do things that are not your responsibility?" "Because no one else will." "And you wonder why you are tired." This has been a recurrent conversation in my head for the past week or so. Third year of residency training has been taking a toll on me and today, as I was telling this to the boyfriend, he gave me two great pieces of advice that I know I ought to write about.  "There was a man and a balut vendor. Everyday the man will buy balut from the vendor but will not get the balut ; in a sense, the man was just giving the vendor 20 pesos every night. He did it for two years and then one night, as the man was giving the vendor 20 pesos,  the balut vendor replied, "30 pesos na po....