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So I know I haven't been the best at updating my blog this month. A LOT has happened! :D A lot of beautiful good things! For example...

I'M GOING TO MED SCHOOL!

At Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine. I cannot wait for this journey to begin. It's been so long since I've waited for this moment. Everything I have ever stood for during the past year had been shaken, and it seemed my entire foundation was uprooted on occasion. But in all of that commotion that was uncertainty, was the simple truth that everything in life is relative to your perspective. You shape what you see, what you feel, and what you become as a consequence of what you perceive..not just visually, but even subconsciously.

A wise professor once told me: "You are what you let your mind absorb."

In this very moment, I choose to absorb the wonderful uncertainty that is my future, the certainty that is my past, and the moment that is the present. In doing so, I choose to be who I am, true to myself.

I've written numerous poems these past few months, of which I'd like to share this one because of its relevance to this topic:

It feels like you're caught in a blaze
And staring at the fire.
As your eyes burn with fear,
Hatred and anger
All that was sanity
Brushed fire into straw
To make you go insane.

You're frozen forever-
Unable freedom
To speak, utter an emotion,
Live, breathe, or move.
Stiffled by the rigidity
That is the cold, you drown
Choking for warm air.

There is no warmth to lay
Solace to the cold
Nor water to calm the fire.
Here you stand broken,
Alone at a precipice-
Organic, molecular, atomic
And you are insignificant.

The fire, cold, warmth
Is relative.

~me (copyrighted)