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New Orleans . . .
Posted on September 5th, 2005 No commentsI can’t believe what is happening there . . . Some of these articles from the NYtimes are just crazy. Look at this one about the Haves and Have Nots
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05moving.html
What I really can’t get my brain around is that while people are suffering in NO, Rwanda, Burundi, China, India, all over the world, I am in my room, socks off, music playing, stomach full trying to study Cardiovascular physiology so that I can be a doctor AND THEN help people.
Meanwhile, people are dying and there is nothing that I can do but study? Do the ends of being a doctor justify the complacency one must embrace as a med student? Apparently they do or else I am just too selfish to act otherwise. Perhaps thats it, perhaps I am just to selfish or afraid to give myself to others. I think I have to get around the thought that its MY med school education. To date my decisions have revolved around what I thought was best for me rather than really helping people for their sake. I suppose thats why living with Deo is so enlightening because he is definitely one person that knows what it means to live for others and not for himself.
I guess the question remains, can I motivate myself to selflessness without being led by someone like Deo?
3 responses to “New Orleans . . .”
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Eugene,,,, I am putting a comment for the first time!
Congratulations on your settling down and being busy studying studying studying!Hope you will be a great doctor (not the ones i hate) and help people when next catastrophe happens somewhere in the world.
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You can always work for Doctors without borders…. but i guess that requires you to study, study, and study some more.
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Sean Hsu October 7th, 2005 at 10:18
Dear Eug :
Hope you can see this comment :
my own very true experience : you must have something valuable first before helping people !
To help others is a noble thing, but it will make you more painful if you do not have what they need. I was full of pasion when I was your age, but I found later, it requires that you have what they need, or you can survive to lend them your hand. So I will support that you get yourself useful, settle your (and family’s) life first, and then give out what you don’t need. I admire that you have this golden heart.Daddy
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