I think the best possible thing I can do here is introduce this blog. At the moment I study at Brighton University. I've wanted to be a doctor since I was 14 years old. So this ambition isn't a passing one, it's a real ambition. An ambition to which I'm not going into closed minded. And it isn't an ambition I've based on watching far too many reruns of scrubs!
When I was 14, I watched someone I loved very much pass away in front of me. I'm aware of the limitations of medicine but this was so hard to watch and only being 14, heck it would be the same being any age, I found the experience so hard to fathom, but it also stirred something in me. It stirred an ambition to not only do the best that I possibly could to either prevent this happening for other people, or make it as easy as I could for other people who went through what I did and more importantly, what she did. This kind of experience forces a maturity that is thrust upon you, and in a way it feels like when someone throws a bucket of ice over you, it's cold and sobering.
This is combined with my attribute of being a bit of a science geek, and my determination in not giving up when I realised I couldn't get into medicine when I was 18 is exactly why I think I could do this, heck I know I can do this!
I have a huge series of events that I need to complete before doing this from finding more continuous voluntary work to the actual event of applying in just over a year,
I'll keep you posted!
XOX
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