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2018 greeted me with a polaroid from the past, quoting an excerpt from Cloud Atlas-- <i>"The world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts,"</i> -- and yes, I hear this loud and clear.

I stopped wishing for each year to be kinder to me because, really, the world doesn't owe me anything. Some few years back, I've learned that the only way I can ever live softly is for me to work hard and be kind. Simple yet substantial; but it's the only way I can ever give back.

I think about this year and how overwhelming everything else will be-- Internship graduation, Physician Licensure Examination, pre-residency exams, residency proper (bless my soul)-- and it frightens me how I might lose track of all these things and the tiny ones that come with it.  And I guess, this is why I'm back to writing again. Anais Nin was right when she said, <i> "We write to taste life twice."</i>  

Because maybe, after all, this is how we catch up with all the buzzing and the world a-spinning.

Cheers to a blessed beginning of 2018. :)