Feet and Money?
Last night, I was reading "Emily's Scars: Surgical Shapings, Technoluxe, and Bioethics" by Arthur Frank. Not surprisingly, I didn't understand most of it. Perhaps I should have read through it more carefully rather than doing what I always do and skim for the main idea of each section. However, I did find one section interesting, in which Frank talks about people getting foot surgery to fit into "those designer shoes." How women would go through cosetic foot surgery, so that their feet would look nice in shoes that would hurt like hell regardless of how many surgerys you get and how many damn band-aids/gel pads you put. That struck a cord for some odd reason. Probably because my feet was modified when I was younger. I was born with two left feet, like my mom. Fortunately, during the early 1990s, there was technology to fix that. I ended wearing shoes to create an arch for two weeks, day in and day out. Now I have "normal feet" with an arch but it still comes with random pains now and again. Sometimes I think about life if my feet weren't fixed. I'd probably have even more trouble finding shoes for my size 10 feet, that refuses to accept any shoe that isn't a sneaker. Well the only reason I wanted to write an entry today really, was this one quote from the text:
"Medicine becomes the business of rewriting what counts as reality"
-Arthur Frank
I wonder what everyone else has to think of that quote. (I know I'm being lazy and not putting my take on that quote but its my journal :P)
In other random thoughts I had was this idea of money. I know I'm being too sensitive with just about everything in life but for some reason I feel like I have to defend myself a lot when I explain to people about my choice to enter the non-profit world. Everytime someone asks me what I plan to do in life, I always tell them I want to work somewhere in the non-profit world. And about 99.9% its, "Why? I mean you don't make a lot of money doing that kind of thing." I always give this childish remark that I want to help people. But then I wonder, is that really what it is? I just want to "help" people. Is that even a good enough answer? I always tell people that it isn't always about making tons of money. I won't live like a pauper but I won't live in a grand ol' house either. The thing I never tell people is that somewhere in my heart I can never see myself working for a corporatin bent on only making profit. I find that life somewhat unfulfiling. I don't know why, don't get me wrong I do like money, just I feel like there would be some sort of void if I just sat there and was like "oh look another $100,000 for XY company." What would everyone else have to say about this?
"Medicine becomes the business of rewriting what counts as reality"
-Arthur Frank
I wonder what everyone else has to think of that quote. (I know I'm being lazy and not putting my take on that quote but its my journal :P)
In other random thoughts I had was this idea of money. I know I'm being too sensitive with just about everything in life but for some reason I feel like I have to defend myself a lot when I explain to people about my choice to enter the non-profit world. Everytime someone asks me what I plan to do in life, I always tell them I want to work somewhere in the non-profit world. And about 99.9% its, "Why? I mean you don't make a lot of money doing that kind of thing." I always give this childish remark that I want to help people. But then I wonder, is that really what it is? I just want to "help" people. Is that even a good enough answer? I always tell people that it isn't always about making tons of money. I won't live like a pauper but I won't live in a grand ol' house either. The thing I never tell people is that somewhere in my heart I can never see myself working for a corporatin bent on only making profit. I find that life somewhat unfulfiling. I don't know why, don't get me wrong I do like money, just I feel like there would be some sort of void if I just sat there and was like "oh look another $100,000 for XY company." What would everyone else have to say about this?