As a child, I had undergone some serious medical problems which have stuck with me and taught me individual lessons each time. Although I was taught these lessons to a surface level extent, i never grasped truly how vulnerable we humans really are and that these lessons should expand our vitality in the modern world. Seeing my siblings live their healthy lives without experiencing serious medical treatments and procedures by no means made me jealous yet I didn’t fear asking why me? Surely going into my second surgery in my lifetime made me feel that saying such a statement should be feasible to the average person. This surgery would be the barrier between me and a smooth transition into my 2nd semester of college. Why would this feeling not be justified? Undergoing surgery and after the surgery it began to hit me that all of the support and visits from family and friends brought me to a revelation that I wish I was able to come to earlier. Why it meant nothing since none of these people would want to be in this situation. It sounds very artificial of a reaction but I realized that humans have a hard time accepting that fate is something that should not be blamed on a game of probability but rather we must see this as a journey back to prosperity. Not only can this be applied to recovering from scary medical procedures but we must have this viewpoint with areas in our life which could include examples such as loss in competition, failure to follow a recipe correctly or accidentally stubbing your toe. In overcoming unprecedented challenges we strengthen our mindset walking into probable failure, underwhelming performance and even minor inconveniences.
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