When you're through thinking say yes

I am just back from an awesome weekend in Cape Town. I went down for the SA sprint championships as well as middle and classic courses in the Grabouw State forest. Was a really awesome change to the monotony of third year. I am not sure how some people can live with just spending every day studying. I could not spend the rest of my life just doing medicine. It's not because I don't enjoy it, it is more that it is at times emotionally draining and sometimes difficult to see past the bad things that happen.

Another interesting topic came up last week. Would you ask your girlfriend to have an HIV test before you dated them? (Assuming that you would also have one yourself, I am not trying to be sexist) I would almost take it further and say that would you test yourself every few months while in a relationship? (I suppose that this point is more applicable to medical professionals that are exposed to the risk of infection every day, but could be extended to some other people...) I would, but perhaps it is more to do with the fact that I would never want to put my significant other at risk. I would also get the HPV vaccine...

Life can be difficult and complicated sometimes. Often it is quite easy to figure out what you want out life, but your decisions affect other people. It's easy to make split second decisions and take actions that you regret, not because they were not the right thing to do, but because you changed something. You changed a friendship or changed someone's view of you. It's difficult to imagine that one action could change everything, I am more concerned about it changing for the worse though...

I am listening to the new album by Yellowcard. Perhaps it is related to the above, but seriously... When you're through thinking, say yes!


"We are responsible with our patients. The problem is we blow it all out at work. In our own lives, we can't think things through. We don't make the sound choice. We did that all day at the hospital. When it comes to ourselves, we've got nothing left. And is it worth it—being responsible? Because if you take your vitamins and pay your taxes and never cut the line, the universe still gives you people to love and then lets them slip through your fingers like water, and then what have you got? Vitamins and nothing."


‎"If I could fly I would never land. I would be free. One day I'll realise that's a metaphor, not a fantasy."