to live

About the 2nd to the last day of my residency one of the other residents, who I consider a close friend, told me she had something to say to me. This something, she said, was something she wanted to talk to me about for a long time. I cringed. Not confrontation, nothing, but confrontation, please.

So she tells me that when her husband left for Iraq about a year ago, she was hurt that I never really talked to her about it. I wanted to have an excuse, but all I could say was that I was sorry. She told me not be sorry and that she only wanted to tell me so that I would consider it in future relationships. She added as residents and doctors, sometimes we are too busy to listen to other people.

How true.

I have finally graduated from residency. Despite getting married, having a child, & buying a home, life, REAL LIFE, has been on hold since medical school. How guilty I feel now that I didn't take time out to comfort my friend during her time of distress. I talked to her on the phone once and saw her in clinic and normal residency stuff, but I guess I didn't take "quality" time out.

But now I'm ready to live and do all the little things I put on hold. Hopefully, I'll be a better friend, wife, employee, disciple, etc.

And to begin this new life . . .I went to HAWAII!