Today, I saw my mother through the eyes of an adult- a woman. And I realized then just how similar she is to the many women portrayed in movies like "The Joy Luck Club". I never thought that those dramatic movies could be applied to real life- but where then would those directors get their ideas from ( Read more... )

This pain will probably fade by the time I graduate from med school and while it doesn't hurt as much as it used to, it still bloody hurts. They will probably never understand how awful it is to be the ones that are left hanging and abandoned and so they will never understand either, why I will never forgive them ( Read more... )

When you remove those rose-tinted glasses, you see the reality and that reality is mostly not very pretty. And you realize that while staying in that lil' shell is good, seeing the good and bad of a situation, or a person is better ( Read more... )

I miss everyone back home so so so much ( Read more... )