I Achieved The Biggest Milestone Of My Life, Not Just The Year. How Can I Forget?

I began the year as a final year medical student and ended it as a doctor. That alone already makes it a year I cannot forget.

A lot transpired in my final year, the work load, the numerous exams, the more intense lectures and clinical rotations, the increased expectations from teachers, parents, fellow classmates and even those in lower classes not to mention the my project and the stress it gave me both physically and financially, especially financially, lol.

The realisation that the journey is coming to an end and soon a new journey would begin.
The financial struggles and attempts to mitigate it while staying afloat with academics. All these summed up my year.

Towards the end of the year, as the exams gradually drew near, I prayed, hoped an worked hard to ensure that by Christmas, I would have every reason to relax, celebrate and be at peace with myself because I would have earned my flowers.

The Christmas of last year was my best as a medical student because it coincided with the conclusion of my 4th MBBS examination which is the exam we take before entering final year and the result came out on the 23rd of December, 2023 just two days to Christmas.
Below is a screenshot of the message I sent to my dad immediately I saw the result.

So, having experienced what joy a Christmas could contain if followed by the right conditions, I worked so hard to ensure that this would even be better.

There were days when it got overwhelming, I would just rest and restart because I had a target and a goal which I called "Doctor by December" lol. I always reminded myself to not relent because it was obvious from the time table and lecture schedules that our induction would be late November or early December.

As the exams began in earnest, the stress level reached a climax, I nearly broke down psychologically. I broke down in health twice but I had to drag myself to persist despite my physical condition because there is no excuse for failure and the consequences would not be favourable.

In the end, the result was released and my joy knew no bounds. This time around I was with my dad when the result was released and I could see how proud he was.

He went about introducing me to all who cared to listen as a doctor and few began to tell me their health challenges and I offered them counselling and advice which would help them.

It was a happy moment for me, my parents, siblings and all my well wishers.

So that sums up the highlight of not just my year but my life.
And now I can introduce myself as Dr. Gratitude without fear or doubt or any complex. It is now a truth, a fact and my reality.

I would now hope to keep on the work so as to learn more and therefore achieve more both in the health sector and the academic field because that is also my interest.

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