I am officially on a one month break from school! Last night we went to a going away party for our friends Brandi and Evan. Brandi and I have been friends all through med school and have spent countless hours studying together. I have her to thank for helping me meet the love of my life. If she hadn't sat down at the same table as Kevin that morning back in March 2008 who knows where I'd be today. Here we are almost three years later. I am so sad to see Brandi and Evan go. They are headed back to Texas so Evan can start a sustainable, green version of Home Depot. Brandi described this year of medical school as a slow death. And she is right. Slowly each month more friends move away, take months away and may not actually be back. In March we'll all find out where we matched and where the next 3-7 years of our lives will be spent. Med school has been a rough road, full of long nights and exhausting challenges but during this adventure I have made some of the best friends I could ask for. And although the next phase of our lives will take us sometimes thousands of miles away, I know I will always have these friends to lean on. These friends helped me learn the difficult stuff about myself and about what it means to be a doctor. We helped each other through, fed each other, loved each other and were always there when the good stuff or the bad stuff happened. This experience has sort of been like a battle, we were down in the trenches together, stressed, overwhelmed but thrilled that at the end of all of this we'd finally be doctors. I know that I couldn't have done it alone.
Lizzy posted this quote on her blog,
Puddin' Pie and I found it so fitting.
From day to day, nothing surely defines the quality of our lives as the unwavering affirmation in the eyes, in the voices, in the presence of our friends. It is through them that we truly begin to know ourselves, + it is their affection that assures our dignity and worth.
-Robert Sexton
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