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Forgetting the Obvious

Well, its been a while since I've written... busy busy busy... but tonight's call has given me moments of free time to relax, including a trip to starbuck's across the street, and with such beautiful weather, I'm so lucky. Now I sit, under flickering flourescents, listening to the shoegaze drone of "Bethany Curve" every bit as relaxing as a nice dose of zolpidem. what shall I muse on tonight?

I've been thinking alot on mid-life crises. Who has them?  I think I'm the sort that would have one. Even at 27, I still find myself wondering, "Is this what I want my life to be like?" I don't envision a life full of work, with only moments of fellowship. This will be temporary. I am applying for ophthalmology again, though with less enthusiasm. In part, because no matter how much I struggle for something, the only way it will happen is if God's will includes it. Isn't that right? I struggled hard for ophtho once, and I didn't get it... isn't that God's will? Doesn't he have a plan for me? I'm okay with ophtho, or being a hospitalist in internal medicine... solely because I enjoy it some... plus, they only work 180 days a year. This comes back to my desire to avoid a mid-life crisis by not wasting my life away working for "the man."

Dngilb MD

Comments

  1. Sam9:39 AM

    You get to go to Starbuck's on call?!?!?

    I imagine I'll have a midlife crisis, in addition to the one(s) I've already had.

    It's a family tradition.

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  2. Anonymous7:23 AM

    Only pensive people suffer from midlife crisis, stop thinking so much. But if you really want to avoid one do what your heart desires.

    V

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  3. Anonymous7:02 PM

    Don't listen to the annonomous visitor's comment here, the one who goes by "V".
    Thinking is part of what makes you unique. It is also a big part of what makes you who you are and who you can become. It does not sound like you are over thinking.
    ONly reflecting and being curious about issues that confront you and much of humanity today.
    I think that is very healthy.
    Some of what you have written up to this point i find very inspiring for my own refection, and a great reminder of how God is in control...and what a relaxing thing that is. (never boring...but always really relaxing...once we accept it.)
    Love ya!

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  4. Anonymous7:50 PM

    David,
    Quite an experience that you must have wittnessed, God has put you in the Medical Field for a reason, and He has big plans for you. Always fascinated to talk with you, cool blogg...eventhough I really don't know much about them...he...he..
    Peace & God Bless

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  5. Anonymous12:25 AM

    I've had a few midlife crisis of my own (today)...and let me tell you something, Dave, they never get any easier. But seriously, an introspective man like yourself is destined for times of questioning the life he has lived, and the reasons he has lived it that way, and the alternative ways he could have lived it. (I don't mean homosexual ways...not that there's anything wrong with that) But the truly introspective man comes up against many small "hills" of crisis (and not necessarily at mid-life), while another man who is more careless and thoughtless with his few short years will find himself at the foot of a huge "mountain" of midlife crisis. All meaningful thought and introspection have been stored up until his hair recedes to a certain point, and at that point the inevitable quest for meaning in life comes crashing down on him. No thanks. I'll continue to take mine in small doses!

    Randy

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