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God gave us knowledge to use it, not sit on it.
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If you lack ambition, and don’t see anything awry with that fact, that’s fine. But I can’t seem to wrap my head around why you’d try to impose your ideals, or lack thereof, on others.
“Oh man, med school’s so much work. That’s like, what, over four years! Why would you want to do that?”
Because I care. About my future, about the lives I’ll have the power to ameliorate, about all of the people I’m not helping until I’m a licensed medical doctor.
Do society a favor and keep your vapid, plebeian, prosaic bullshit to yourself.
The human heart is now documented as the strongest generator of both electrical and magnetic fields within the body. We’ve always been taught that the brain is where the action is, but the brain is comparitively weak… The heart is 100 times stronger electrically and up to 5,000 times stronger magneticallly than the brain. The reason this is important is because the world as we know it is made of those two fields. If we can change either the magnetic field of an atom or the electrical field of the atom, we literally change that atom- we change the stuff our bodies are made of. And the human heart is designed to do both, to change both the electrical and magnetic field of our bodies and our world, and it does so in response to the emotions we create between our heart and our brain… Every thought in the human mind sends out an electromagnetic wave from the base of the heart that has a measurable effect on the world in which we live.
“It’s a shame that doctors on television earn more than actual doctors.”
It pains me to hear those words. It’s an ironic truth, yes. But entirely irrelevant. You don’t enter this field for the money. An M.D.’s salary is a perk, but at the heart of it all, a non-factor. Ask any good doctor. Why would you dedicate a decade of your life to an empty ambition? To be well-off down the line? There are far easier, and more efficacious methods of securing your future. Saving lives is lucrative in itself, paychecks don’t mean a thing.
14 years ago today, Viagra was approved by the FDA.
Alive.
By the second grade, when asked to define a word, students are expected to refrain from reiterating it in their explanations. Most fail initially, but eventually they catch on. After all, how are you to elucidate on its meaning to someone completely oblivious of it, by simply restating the word? That’s like trying to explain the beauty of The Mona Lisa to the congenitally blind.
But we all fall victim to it at some point. Especially when pondering the conceptual. Even the dictionary can’t compete eventually.
Take the word alive, for example. Open any collection of definitions and you’ll find something along the lines of “having life”, “full of life”, “the state of living”, and my personal favorite, “being alive”.
But what does that mean? Is merely being in possession of all necessary vital functions indicative of being alive? Is existing implicative of living? Is human life equatable to that of a sea sponge?
That’s where the lexicon fails.
“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.”
— E. E. Cummings
Mr. Edward Estin Cummings had it right. God rest his soul.
Except humans…
- A normal, healthy resting heart rate falls between 60 and 100 beats per minute (excluding babies and the elderly).
- That’s a little over 1 beat per second.
- In which case, 1.5 billion heartbeats can be equated to 1.5 billion seconds.
- 1.5 billion seconds is equal to 47.5 years.
- Odds are if you’re reading this, your parents are near/over that age. They’re not dying tomorrow.
- This logic implies exercise (which increases your heart rate) would diminish your total lifespan.
The heart doesn’t expire after 1.5 billion heart beats. Odds are if you’re dying before 50 of natural causes, there’s something else wrong with you.
You’ve got the world ahead of you, and it’s in your power to make it better.
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