Pragmatism

So in light of recent conversations with friends regarding their romantic relationships, I felt it necessary to raise the issue of pragmatism and its seeming hurdle in kindling my three friends relationships. I will keep these brief for fear these stories can be identified when they should probably be confidential despite only using them for discussion.

Festivities

So last weekend I attended a three-day bender at the largest winter music festival Australia has - Splendour in the Grass. So the question I ask myself is why do I road-trip 6 hours, live "subhuman" (as my friend coins it) for three days not showering, eat processed canned food, dwell in our rubbish tip of a campsite, and just generally sleep in my own filth and sweat. I guess it's all for three days of discovering new music, good friends, and most importantly pure escapism.

The Precipice of Adulthood

So most recently I was chatting to my friend while visiting Sydney and he was filling me in on his new goals for this year of which one of the major themes was the idea that he was now going to be focussed on his career and getting ahead professionally. Our conversation eventually explored the idea that my group in Sydney is more than ever on the precipice of the transition into full blown adulthood and responsibility with about half already having full-time jobs and the other half it feels stalling university as long as possible. Needless to say, it really got me thinking about my own life and its direction.

Personalities

So recently the topic of personalities was reinvigorated and I made most of my friends do the Myers Briggs personality test which after a set of questions, places people squarely into 16 different personality types based on 4 different ways that people approach the world. You can either be Introverted/Extroverted, iNtiution/Sensing, Feeling/Thinking, or Judging/Perceiving. Then your whole personality is reduced to 4 letters: ENTJ for myself.

Lists

So a short preamble: This post has less to do with an idea but more so an explanation for future posts. So when I graduated high school, I made a list of 101 things to do before graduating university and like most lists, it has become a symbol of how I derive so much pleasure from beginning many projects but never seem to finish them. Long story short, one of the things to do is to finish writing 200 blog posts by the time I graduate in about one and a half years. Unfortunately even one a week means that I will not be able to accomplish this task, and that the only way is to write multiple times in a week but that is riddled with problems.

Complex Emotions

This year has been interesting to say the least - by moving away from four years of location stability, and to find myself in a rural regional centre, finally having more hands-on experience in medicine has evoked a lot of complex emotions in myself. The other day in my mental health rotation, a patient with an intellectual disability was said to get agitated at a few life stressors but was unable to fully understand "complex emotions".

One Wish

So another thought crossed my mind on my recent cruise. A local art gallery was showcasing an interesting project - the theme was "one wish" based on the ancient Japanese 'Senbazuru', the tradition of folding 1000 cranes in order to make one wish true. The local artist started with the oncology department of the local hospital and this quickly expanded to involve an entire community.

My Cruisy Sabbatical

It's always so hard to restart something that has been stopped for so long. I would love to say that I had a sabbatical and actually came back with some more wisdom or insight or profundity but the truth is much more underwhelming than that.