Life is just a series of different phases with different faces
This is my first post of 2007! Yay!
I just got back to Cambridge five days ago. Much to my surprise, my spirits haven’t been dramatically dampened (yet) by the torrid English weather and bland food. Well, it’s not like I’m complaining….
On Friday night, during an engaging conversation with my friend from College, the topic somehow veered into ‘life and how it changes with time’, which brought me to conclude as per the title of this blog entry.
Life is just a series of different phases with different faces. This is especially true for a person who moves around a lot, relocating from one place to another for pursuit of educational and/or career developement. It seems that nowadays, one seldom stay in a single place for too long. We all move on. And with each moving, we inadvertently create a new phase of life, and hence, justifying the first part of the entry title ‘Life is just a series of different phases…’
In doing so, we will definitely meet new people, and lose touch with most of the people from our previous ‘phases’ of life. Let’s face it: even at university, it very difficult to maintain that same level of closeness that we once shared with people from high school. What more do you expect once you move beyond the confines of your university life and venture out into the vast unknown that is the working life?
“Different faces” has two meanings to it: firstly, living life in a new phase definitely brings you to meet new people.
Secondly, but more importantly, the different experience you gain will rub on you. And at the end of one phase of life, you’re not the same person you used to be when you first started out. The change in you will happen. It’s inevitable. And I’ve learnt that it’s no use (and perhaps even counterproductive) to try to avoid change. We can only pray that the change is for the better.
So, does this mean that you’ll end up ‘losing’ all your friends in the future? I’m not putting my money on anything, but I believe in fate: if your paths are bound to cross in the future, then you’ll meet each other again. Likewise, if your not fated to cross paths again, then who knows that the last time you see your friend at graduation may be the last time you’ll ever see that person in your life!!! I know how scary this thought may seem to be.
For instance, during my prep school graduation, I told a friend “Hey, I’ll catch you later” before running off somewhere to do something. Little did I know that ‘later’ really meant THREE years later, when we finally got the opportunity to meet up after so long. Extrapolate three years to a lifetime and you’ll see what I mean.
This term, I’ll be starting a new ‘life’ again. This time, I’ll be based at the British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Research Centre at the Addenbrooke’s Centre for Clinical Investigation. New phase. New face.
End of entry.
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Now for something ‘lighter’, which type of medical student are you?
(Warning to the overtly-sensitive readers: very very very mild and occasional use of the four letter word. Also, to the non-medical readers, apologies for the use of some medical jargons)
