Thank you. You're right that we are each unique and can adapt in our own ways to the good and bad of life.
What we can choose is more powerful than the sum total of what's happened to us, is what I hear in your last post. I agree. And when people chose to not chose and give up and be victims only, they don't realize the power they have given away. This makes me sad. As a teacher, I see a rare student with great potential and intelligence identify himself/herself as a victim who "can't" and this is something that is hard for me to witness.
The main reason I didn't go into medicine was not wanting to lose patients. This feeling of not being able to get through to a student determined to fail is really not as simple as I thought. It hurts almost as much as losing a patient. Either way, I wonder if there was something I could have done to get through to that person. But I don't have a God complex and know I am not capable of communicating well with all people. There is the simple matter of personal chemistry and compatibility.
I do not think spirituality is the big answer, either. In fact, retreating into a silo of science or religion to explain it all brings me no closer to where I need to be. The mind must remain open, which is not easy, right?
What we can choose is more powerful than the sum total of what's happened to us, is what I hear in your last post. I agree. And when people chose to not chose and give up and be victims only, they don't realize the power they have given away. This makes me sad. As a teacher, I see a rare student with great potential and intelligence identify himself/herself as a victim who "can't" and this is something that is hard for me to witness.
The main reason I didn't go into medicine was not wanting to lose patients. This feeling of not being able to get through to a student determined to fail is really not as simple as I thought. It hurts almost as much as losing a patient. Either way, I wonder if there was something I could have done to get through to that person. But I don't have a God complex and know I am not capable of communicating well with all people. There is the simple matter of personal chemistry and compatibility.
I do not think spirituality is the big answer, either. In fact, retreating into a silo of science or religion to explain it all brings me no closer to where I need to be. The mind must remain open, which is not easy, right?
