Ahuv Sheli

{One Friday Moment } A single image capturing a moment. A simple, special extraordinary moment. A moment rummaged from my niece's album 2009 that I want to pause, savor and remember. " This Moment " is a ritual on Life inspired by the  Wee Man  adopted from  SouleMama  which was introduced to me by Roy Durham of  Roy's Garage Sell and Auction  If you wish to participate, post your picture on a Friday and leave your link in the comments. Remember to shout TGIF...it's Friday ;) YEY!

I was about to write something about a book my dad gave me to read... but just like my other pending journals...this one has to wait... something more interesting came up... A net journal is quite difficult to maintain  but since the diaries of this millennium are meant to be shared, then I guess, I'll just try to figure a way to keep them up. This is an extended journal sharing... to a friend's friend...  Most of my reflections come from my experiences with my patients and their relatives... colleagues and friends... and my own as well... When one is in pain, whether it be physical or emotional... the natural tendency of humans is to protect itself from it. We call it fight vs. flight. Face it or  evade it. It's a natural human reaction. What causes it or who contributes to pain's gravity are also factors to consider. Francisco Icasiano wrote  Pain, I have realized, is beautiful only when one can rise from its depressing power. .. I remembe...

It was appropriately while looking at myself in the mirror when my reflections on this all began... "Comparison is the thief of Joy." - Theodore Roosevelt- Introducing  The Blog Hop Comparison: Thief of Joy?  by  Everyday Gyaan  and  Dangerous Linda IVT Trng.,Medical Ward, VMMC, 2009 I remembered how we perused the charts of each patient in the hospital reading the doctor's progress notes. Everyday, looking at how every intervention has augmented a person's life... Studying them in comparison with others of the same disease. While it holds true that certain medications work in patients with the same cases, each one of them is treated individually and at a personal level. Now, in a different work but still browsing papers, we take note how much an article improves after every revision in comparison to the original ones the doctors submitted. Looking at both circumstances, comparison was used to identify a result, to   con...