Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~ Robert C. Gallagher
Happy belated Chinese New Year! Kung Hei Fat Choi! Welcome to the year of the Rabbit.
I don't know what my horoscope is supposed to be for this year but it's definitely a year of Change with a capital C.
I've tried on many different hats in my time: pharmacy, research science, and most recently, lawyer. But deep down, all along I've wanted to be a doctor. I just missed out when I applied straight out of high school
waaaaay back in '02 and that blow made me bury those dreams for a long time.
Now, I've been given another chance. At the ripe old age of 26, I am uprooting my life, moving away from my loved ones, my friends, even my fiance to go to med school in a completely different city on a completely different island: Dunedin.
It has been an agonising decision...can I do it? Move away from everything I know and everyone I love to live in a place I've never even visited. I'm excited and exhilarated but at the same time terrified and sad. The hardest thing is knowing I'm leaving my Mum all on her own and be living away from C just when we are about to get married.
But at the end of the day the question was -
is it worth it?
And it is.
Nothing worth having is ever easy and it's facing your fears and challenging yourself by doing things out of your comfort zone that shapes you as a person.
So this Chinese New Year, I am saying
au revoir to the life I know to follow my dreams and to celebrate I tried a brand new super yummy Malaysian dish:
Cereal Prawns.
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