Professions I adore

When I was two years old, I wanted to be a pilot. I believe that the guy behind the joystick is the luckiest guy and the best seat to be. For a fighter pilot, he has the nations pride on his back, for a commercial pilot, he has the lives of everyone who is on board on his shoulders. Boy I wanted to be those guys. It is the taught that when things go wrong, your the one people rely on. The so called hero scenario that I thrilled to achieve, was a childhood fantasy.

I never became a pilot, yet I have flown several times behind the joystick. I fly for the thrill of flight and how a man can have wings and look down from above. Those short few flights taught me that to put me up there, there were armies of people checking and keeping me safe down on earth. It made me wonder, what is the actual cost to be on top?

As an engineering student, I learned that there is another batch of people that I can never comprehend and stand toe to toe. Its not the fact that they are smarter, its the fact that they are far more braver in my book. They are the people who are actually saving lives, the doctors, the experts. I could never be in their shoes. I have a thing called perceptual pain. Because my imagination is so detailed, I am able to feel the pain of things just but looking at an image. Also I am scared of blood, thus I can never stand in the sight of it. This has made me look up to people who do become doctors. Opening up cadavers and memorizing all the terms in medical journals and those sorts.

Doctors spent a lot of time and money to get certified, and in the end their work require them to be available around the clock, and to me holding a doctor back from their duty is never an option. Most male doctors have the option of trophy wives, but I am also sorry to see the female doctors, who are the best of the society, rarely have a large option of whom they could find a suitable partner. I could understand why most stay single in this age, I can see why most would opt to marry fellow doctors, or even collage sweethearts. But I for sure know, asking a female doctor to not practice her medicine, would do nothing but damage to the society. Doctors spent loads of time and money, they would by default want to earn their hard work and contribute in helping save lives. I think its really honorable to be a doctor who does that. But it might come with a price. I wonder who gets all what they want.

Don't take me wrong, I think highly of doctors, but to me, they have chosen a path that requires people close to them to also share the burden and the hardship that they go through every day of their lives. And what is more courageous than saving another life? It takes some one really strong and understanding to be married to a doctor. That's what I think.