These days, I have some time off to reflect and have made some interesting observations.
Learning is a wheel ---there is no start, no end, it goes on and on. Whenever I think I know enough. It feels like I am at the beginning again, only this time the re -reading or relearning gives me a better understanding, a clearer perspective and it is faster. Also, it makes me want to go into the topic deeper and explore. It seems to have become a sort of an addiction.
I have a confession here. I do not remember everything I read or learn. yet when I reread or go over the subject a little deeper, it is easier and more interesting. It makes me think and I feel as though I am entering another room with things to discover.
Memory tells me that ever since I was a child, healing the sick interested me. It did not matter whether they were Flora, Fauna, or humans. I would scrounge for household stuff to help and more often then not they worked. Growing up I picked up bits of information and knowledge from various sources, which helped me when I started practicing as a Doctor of Medicine. Books, alone were never enough, discussions, advices, stories, experiences, all added to my education.
I learnt from a variety of gurus, the conventional institutional and familial ones but more importantly from those who had experienced, lived lives, suffered, recovered--- my patients. They taught me so much especially –the real values of this Gift of Life. Something we tend to take for granted.
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