Covid & Gratitude

***POTENTIAL TRIGGER WARNING*** In my last post, I wrote that I had contracted Covid-19 and that I would write a follow-up post going into greater detail about my experience. This is that post. Towards the end of March 2020, my partner who happens to be a doctor, contracted what we suspected to be Covid-19. The…

Rest and Recuperation

This isn't a very long post. It's not even a medium length post. This Arrows and Ailments post comes to you on a relaxed Saturday afternoon from a very grey, windy city of London. I'm home alone this weekend and halfway through I've realised just how much I needed this. I'm extremely introverted by nature…

Stuff

Hello. It's me again. It's the end of another month. I'm in this really weird position. The position of knowing where I'll be this August. Of knowing what the next chapter of my life will be. It's strange because I'm able to somewhat take my mind off of my pending enrolment into medical school and…

Perspective

It's Friday today. Friday 31st of January 2020 to be exact. I'm feeling pensive. Reflecting on my life so far and feeling like I've not really accomplished much. The irony that I was so focused for so many years on getting into medical school so I could save lives, that I forgot to live. The…