LXXXXI. A Warning Against Loss of Agency

Time will pass whether you like it or not. Do what you will. Do what you must. Fast.

A Total Hip Arthroplasty we did for an elderly patient. She was quite depressed before the procedure. But a few weeks after the operation, you could see the joy in her eyes and those of her sons when she came back to the follow-up clinic elated because she was now pain free and could move around effortlessly in her new joint. It was beautiful to see. These are the moments I live for. And this is a reminder for you to keep living for others—it makes you, and the world, a better place.

“You could leave life right now, let that determine what you do and say and think.” — Marcus Aurelius

“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that… though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor do know until he has tried." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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