“Gratitude. Appreciation Giving thanks. No matter what words you use, it all means the same thing: happy. We're supposed to be happy. Grateful; for friends, family, happy to just be alive. Weather we like it or not. Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy.…”Tagged: Gratitude, Joy
“Maybe we’re not supposed to be happy, maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is, appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe…”Tagged: Gratitude, Celebration, Appreciation, Joy, Thankfulness
“When you were a kid, it was Halloween candy. You hid it from your parents and ate it until you got sick....In college, it was the heavy combo of youth, tequila and well, you know. As a surgeon, you take as much of the good as you can get because it doesn't come around nearly as often as it should.…”Tagged: Halloween Candy, tequila, Too Much Of A Good Thing
“We can’t help ourselves. We see a line, we want to cross it. Maybe it's the thrill of trading the familiar for the unfamiliar. A sort of personal dare. Only problem is, once you've crossed it's almost impossible to go back....But if you do manage to make it back across that line you find safety in…”Tagged: familiar, unfamiliar, Safety in Numbers
“Who gets to determine when the old ends, and the new begins? It’s not a day on a calendar, not a birthday, not a new year. It’s an event. Big or small. Something that changes us. Ideally, it gives us hope. A new way of living and looking at the world. Letting go of old habits, old memories. What’s…”Tagged: Old and New, old habits, Old Memories, New Beginning
“Fresh starts. Thanks to the calendar, they happen every year. Just set your watch to January. Our reward for surviving the holiday season, is a new year. Bringing on the great tradition of New Year’s resolutions. Put your past behind you, and start over. It’s hard to resist the chance at a new…”Tagged: Fresh Starts, calendar, January, New Year's, New Beginning
“In hospitals they say you know. You know when you're going to die. Some doctors say it's a look patients get in their eyes. Some say there's a scent, a smell of death. Some say there's just some kind of sixth sense, when the great beyond is heading for you, you feel it coming. Whatever it is, it's…”Tagged: creepy, dread
“After careful consideration and many sleepless nights, here's what I've decided. There's no such thing as a grown-up. We move on, we move out, we move away from our families and form our own....But the basic insecurities, the basic fears and all those old wounds just grow up with us....And just when…”Tagged: Adulting, Grown-Ups, Insecurity, Playground
“As doctors, patients are always telling us how they would do our jobs. Just stitch me up, slap a Band-Aid on it and send me home. It's easy to suggest a quick solution, when you don't know much about the problem or when you don't understand the underlying cause or just how deep the wound really…”Tagged: doctors, Patients, Band-Aid
“As doctors, as friends, as human beings, we all try to do the best we can....But the world is full of unexpected twists and turns. And just when you've gotten the lay of the land, the ground underneath you shifts. And knocks you off your feet. If you're lucky, you'll end up with nothing more than a…”Tagged: doctors, Patients, Friends, human beings, wounds
“My college campus has a magic statue. It's a longstanding tradition for students to rub its nose for good luck. My freshman roommate really believed in the statue's power and insisted on visiting it to rub its nose before every exam....Studying might have been a better idea, she flunked out at…”Tagged: College, campus, Magic, Statue, Superstition
“Life is not a spectator sport. Win, lose, or draw, the game is in progress, whether we want it to be or not. So go ahead argue with the refs, change the rules, cheat a little, take a break and tend to your wounds. But play. Play hard, play fast, play loose and free. Play as if there's no tomorrow.…”Tagged: Life, Rules of Life, Win and Losing, The Game of Life
“A good basketball game can have us all on the edge of our seats. Games are all about the glory, pain and the play by play. And then there are the more solitary games....The games we each play all by ourselves....The social games, the mind games, we use them to pass the time to make life more…”Tagged: Basketball, Games, Playing, Competition
“There are days that make the sacrifices seem worthwhile...and then there are the days where 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, you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else…”Tagged: Good Days, Bad Days, Sacrifice
“We're all damaged, it seems. Some of us, more than others....We carry the damage with us from childhood, then as grownups, we give as good as we get....Ultimately, we all do damage....And then, we set about the business of fixing whatever we can.”Tagged: damaged, Grownups, Childhood
“You don't get to call me a whore. When I met you, I thought I had found the person that I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I was done, so all the boys, and all the bars, and all the obvious daddy issues. Who cared, because I was done. You left me. You chose Addison. I'm all glued back…”Tagged: Whore, Apologies
“We all go through life like bulls in a china shop. A chip here, a crack there. Doing damage to ourselves, to other people....The problem is trying to figure out how to control the damage we've done, or that's been done to us....Sometimes the damage catches us by surprise....Sometimes we think we can…”Tagged: Damage, Life, surprise
“In life we are taught that there are seven deadly sins....We all know the big ones... gluttony, pride, lust....But the sin you don't hear much about is anger. Maybe it's because we think anger's not that dangerous....That you can control it....My point is, maybe we don't give anger enough…”Tagged: Seven Deadly Sins, Anger, Gluttony, Pride, Lust
“Time waits for no man. Time heals all wounds. All any of us wants is more time. Time to stand up. Time to grow up. Time to let go. Time.”
“The reality is that pain is there to tell us something, and there's only so much pleasure we can take without getting a stomach ache. And maybe that's okay. Maybe some fantasies are only supposed to live in our dreams.”Tagged: No Good Without The Bad, Part and Parcel, Meaning in Our Suffering