Sacrifice For The Unexpected

The key to being a successful medical professional is what we give up:

sleep

friends

a normal life.

We sacrifice it all for the thrill.

There are days that make the sacrifice seem worth wild. And then, there are the days when everything feels like a sacrifice. And then there are the sacrifices that YOU can’t even figure out why you’re making.

A wise man once said that you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything for it. What he meant is… nothing comes without a price. So, before you go into battle, you better decide how much you are willing to lose.

Too often, going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right.

And letting someone in, means abandoning the walls you spent a lifetime building.

Of course, the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don’t see coming. When we don’t have time to come up with a strategy to pick a side, or measure the potential loss – when that happens... when the battle chooses us and not the other way around… that’s when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear.

No one believes that their life will turn out just kind of ok. We all think we are going to be great, and from the day we decide to be medical professionals – we are filled with expectation.

Expectations of the trails we will blaze, the people we will help, the difference we will make, great expectations of who we will be, where we will go… and then – we get there.

We all think we are going to be great, and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met.

But sometimes our expectations sell us short.

Sometimes, the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You’ve got to wonder why we cling to our expectations... because the expected is just what keeps us steady, standing, still.

The expected is just the beginning.

The unexpected is what changes our lives.