Choosing medicine because your family pushed you to vs reflecting and finding your own genuine passion to pursue it
Posted May 3, 2020, 3:10 PM UTC
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Last Air bender coming to netflix pretty soon here
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I just rewatched it like 2 months ago before I found out, guess I'll just do it again¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Same, also pretty interested to see how their live-action adaptation will work out but I'm not getting my hopes up after that M Night Shyamalan movie
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There is no ATLA movie in Ba Sing Se
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This is actually kinda good ngl. Iroh’s quotes never have not become irrelevant to me every time I encounter them
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Uncle Iroh is that character we all wish was a real person in our own lives
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Have you shared tea with a fascinating stranger? It’s one of life’s truest delights.
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thank u op this is beautiful memé
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That was engineering for me. Everyone wanted me to be an engineer, but I wanted to be veterinarian. Bah! I regret not being a DVM. :( I was a good engineer. A good Prof. A good Data Scientist. None held much passion for me. Here I am now, old and wondering if passion is worth the cost anymore.
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Easy to say, but not easy to actually ask yourself.
It is kind of amusing that this came from Avatar since Asian culture is very much about "the family" - something that conflicts with the more Western-centric "what do you want?"
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my family hates that I’m talking about how watching and caring for their psychiatric illness impacted my desire to try to treat and research others going through all that... but hey, it’s better than “my dads a nurse and Hates the gig. Mommy and daddy were perfect”
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Oof, hits different now...
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Try having your mom wanting to force you into being a doctor throughout high school, applying to college for CS to make your own destiny, then realizing that you actually have 0 passion for CS and that you really do want to be a doctor (but on your own terms)
Glad you found your way man
Thanks, man :)