University of Kentucky College of Medicine student, Lee Kiefer, wins gold in fencing! She is a four-time Olympian who’s also balancing her Olympic dreams with med school. She put her studies on hold to compete in #Paris2024 and will soon graduate med school.
I hate to break the news to the rest of the Western Conference, but they may not have a chance to win the Western Conference Finals for the next 5-7 years. The Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs are just that good! They are talented, deep, athletic and both teams are well coached.
Home, again! Mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families and our terrific teams a @NASA and @csa_asc. Time to share the good news!
Once you've figured out how to parent your first kid, it's already too late; the only way to put that knowledge into practice is to have another kid.
Unfortunately, the second kid is so different from the first that none of the stuff you learned applies.
It's a flawed system.
I’m 38 years old, and I met two other 38 year olds in separate encounters on the same day a while back. My interactions with them reinforced a life lesson for me.
The first one had 2 kids - 12 and 6 year olds. In my mind, I thought I should have married early because now see my mate’s last born is same age with my first born.
But then they started telling me about their career struggles. And then I had another thought that perhaps maybe I shouldn’t complain about not starting a family earlier.
The second one I met a few hours later had just gotten married and was expecting a child. So I thought: wow I really shouldn’t feel bad at all for not starting my family earlier.
But then they started telling me about how they are thriving in their career and the properties they own. And suddenly it dawned on me: the pressures that we experience in life mostly comes from the expectations we place on ourselves.
This bizarre double-encounter in one day reminded me of the fact that we all have our own personal race to run. And comparing ourselves with others will only make us miss the joys of our own experiences.
We create our own inward pressures that make us unhappy. Basically, we make ourselves unhappy by ourselves. So I say to you reading this: find satisfaction in your life. Take solace in your wins no matter how little.
And most importantly, don’t give up hope; for hope maketh not ashamed.
My mum’s whatsapp status. She goes about posting 10, 20 pictures and there is hardly anyone that is clear. The pictures often appear as though someone keeps shaking her hand while taking the pictures. Yet, she posts them. I love how she is not aware that the pictures are not great. To her, they are great and that is all that matters. That’s where I want her to keep living. I laugh a lot at her captions too. Tell me why someone will post a picture and caption it as follows: “Happy Sunday from iya alayo in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen”. I really don’t know but these things make me laugh a lot.
Always carry yourself like you’re destined for great things and believe it too (doesn’t have to be true yet, but believe it regardless). Those who move through life with such outlook tend to have high standards and be more accountable.
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A young man is admitted to the hospital with malaise and fever. There are tender nodules on his palms as well as non-tender macular lesions on the soles of his feet.
These findings should generate a hypothesis.
I often find myself connecting with elderly patients.
They’re some of the most honest people you’d ever meet. Vulnerable and free from the ego and pretense that consumes one in their youth.
I like to imagine what they would have been like when they were my age.