"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million"
~ Walt Streightiff
Our youth is something to be cherished. Most of the time people my age can't wait to grow up. I understand this urgency to leave our childhood homes but I'm a realistic person. Along with the freedom that comes with being an adult, I also think about the huge amount of responsibilities I'll be forced to deal with. (the monthly rent, electricity bill, income taxes, etc.) In my future workplace I'd like to have something to distract from the real world while still being able to call it my career. This is where the thought of becoming a pediatrician comes into my mind.
A pediatrician is a physician who specializes in the treatment of children from birth through adolescence. Becoming one is incredible difficult to say the least. You would have to be in school for an additional 8 years after high school. That's almost a decade of your life! Acceptance to any medical school is extremely competitive which makes me terrified of pursuing this profession. Rejection is one of my biggest fears as you can see. By the time I finish all of my schooling I'm afraid that during all those years of endless studying, I'll realize that I've missed friends' weddings, birthdays, christmas parties, and so on. I don't want to look in the mirror and ask myself, " What have you been doing with your life Donna?" To be able to work and be around children is the biggest reason that I would want to be a pediatrician. Something about their innocence makes me just want to protect them from the terrible things in our world. Things that luckily their young minds don't quite know how to grasp yet.
