Life Lesson #21: Not always about yourself

i say, it's human nature to be selfish. i've had my fair share of selfishness when i believe that it should be my problems first, it should be what i want first before anything.

a lot of times, people tend to forget that the rest of the world has far greater problems - you may be worrying on what to eat when there are those who worry when they can eat and if their money is enough to buy them food. those kind of stuff.

a very respected mentor once told a group of students a very valuable lesson which could be really helpful to all hopeful md to be -- to get over yourself. because it's not always about you. a lot of times it's about the greater good. always for the good of the many.

i thought that by this time, i have learned this. unfortunately, not. i still have a long way to go to overcome the selfishness. and i pray that ill be able to do so cause like a lot of valuable life lessons, they are always for the better.

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and things will start to change..

to start it all: my hair! haha. it's short now. like kindergarten short. haha. i like it. and i wanted to have my hair cut since summer, but because of grad pictorials, i need to postpone it. and grad pictorials are done - and i don't want to postpone it any longer. haha. so i had my hair cut yesterday afternoon after watching the Agnes of God play with my brother. (i have no decent pictures yet so you need to see me personally if you want to see it. i feel weird. i think it looks weird. haha.) and so everything follows. *** change is something inevitable. a natural phenomenon that would definitely happen in one way or another. we can't stop it (i think) but we can postpone it and i think i've postponed "that" inevitable change for too long now, and I have no other choice but to let it happen. i've already felt the urge to remove that something from my system at the start of the sem (as the change im talking about). well, i knew i need to deal wi...

thesis encounters :P

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a sad day.

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AnneC.

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