A Plan-oholic.

During the last two years I discovered that I’m a plan freak or a plan-oholic. I almost always plan ahead anything I’ll do. I could plan a whole month ahead of time and if my plan doesn’t go like I wanted it to I’d re-plan again and again and again. Hell I even spend more time planning than actual doing !

As a student, I had specific duties and requirements to fulfill so planning was easy. Step 1, Step 2, Step 3… and so on. But now I’m no longer a student, nor do I know exactly what am I supposed to do. I don’t like that. It’s like walking blindfolded among an unknown land.

Everyone I know keeps telling me to enjoy my free time with doing what I love and stop thinking of planning something to do! but it’s the fact that I had to squash what I loved during my busy schedule is what made them so enjoyable. Shows, reading and playing with bits & pieces of geek tools. It’s fun for a while to do it all day but then I start asking myself what next ? This unproductiveness is killing me!  A friend of mine keeps telling me: “You shouldn’t be given time off coz you don’t deserve it !” I suppose I am a work-oholic too..

I supposedly made three future plans, A, B & C. Hopefully one of them would work out as planned. But still this nagging feeling that I’m heading into something dark & mysterious is very annoying and growing out of it is going to take a hell of an effort from my lovely chicken self.. So help me god.

P.S. Fate is clearly trying to be very funny with my emotional plans.. so I decided not to plan them out anymore and just go with the damn flow or maybe ignore that side of me once and for all.

Ten lessons I Learned the Hard Way.

10. Friends come and go.. but Family doesn’t.. So try to learn how to get along with what you’ve got.

9. Not all Friends are loyal or truthful. Some befriend you for a reason, and once that reason ceases to exist they disappear as well.

8. Never take a friend for granted, no matter how close you are.

7. Whatever your tongue says you can never ever take back.

6. Trust your gut no matter how hard it may be.

5. Treat people in the best manner you know how but never expect the same from them. You’ll definitely be disappointed a lot.

4. Never assume what the other person is thinking. Because most likely you’re not on the same track.

3. Misunderstandings ALWAYS ALWAYS happen because of lack of knowledge.

2. When you feel unwanted or un-needed, walk away.

1. Love, with everything you got, every cell in your body, every action you make. Don’t keep anything back. Say it & act it with all your heart so one day you won’t ask yourself what if? or regret not saying it loud & clear because it’s too late.

P.S. This post may be edited in the future.

Where it all began is where it all shall end.

I have been dreading writing this post for a week or so. Running away for what I really wanted to say. I tweeted a lot about how I felt and what I missed. But still there was a lot more I couldn’t say. Exactly 10 year ago I spent my summer in Riyadh. I was 14, just finished middle school. My mom had given birth to my little sister, my new only sister that I needed and wanted for so many years before she came along. But she was too late. I had just lost my childhood weight, went from being a teenager who wore clothes from the oversized women section to a lovely figured young lady. My cyber life had been so limited, yahoo chat rooms and yahoo messenger nothing quiet so addictive or important. My sony walkman with the fancy blue protective cover and the many many cassettes was my source of entertainment. Life was so simple and quiet, no worry what so ever what the future held or what tomorrow will look like.
Today, 10 years later it seems that history has repeated itself. Only with some differences. I am 24, just graduated as a dentist. And my grandfather had passed away. And Ironically throughout this year I had lost all the weight I gained & went back to what I weighed at age 14. I am a different person now. An adult. A grown up.
In 10 years a lot had happened. A lot of what I wish hadn’t happened but do not regret. 10 summers ago was a begging of an era in my life that made me fly up so high till I touched the clouds to fall so fast so hard head first on the solid ground. I had promised myself when this summer began that that era was over. I am an adult now and everything should stop. I rode the plane to Europe with a new resolution. But then two nights later the news had came, Grandpa is dead and we should fly back home. To Riyadh home.
Maybe it’s a sign of a real new beginning, starting off from point zero, where it all began is where it all shall end. And where a new chapter of my life shall be opened.
I fear the future, I fear what I want to become, and most of all I fear that this summer is not the only thing history shall repeat.
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Maybe my standards are too high?

For the past days all I did was study. I went through the almighty CCC final with it’s three parts. The 1st & the 3rd were acceptable, but the 2nd was disastrous & “7a8eer”. I got out of the exam room feeling numb, I was supposed to be happy it’s over yet I felt nothing like that. As the hours passed I started feeling tired, frustrated & exhausted. My eyes teared up not because I was sad but because I was tired. The tears socked my eyes for exactly 1 minute then they dried out. I wanted to cry but I couldn’t I just couldn’t.
I treated myself with an outing with my best friend & we started talking about our future plans. I had fun yet there was this nagging feeling inside me that wouldn’t go away. We sat in the restaurant for three hours then went home. It was around 9:30 so I decided to sleep. I played season 5 of SATC on my laptop & started watching. In between the episodes I was bbming a couple of my friends & I said stuff I shouldn’t have said. The next day I woke up at 1 pm & it downed to me that I might be in an emotional breakdown coz my politeness shield was gone last night & I had hurt some of the ppl I love. I woke up wishing that if I started studying surgery I’d feel better.
I set up my papers & books, then called one of my friends, what she said shocked me. She announced that she had called the coarse director and kind of gotten the final exam questions. To me it felt like cheating, pure cheating and I don’t like that. I have failed many exams during my college life because I’d rather fail than cheat. Those are my standards. Yet I found that almost everyone were okay with it & considered it a good thing. To me it’s taking the easy way out & being lazy. And I also see it that in the future you the cheater may kill a person & try to go around the system to save you ass since your standards are okay to take something you haven’t earned.
My closest friend say I’m over-reacting and I should let it go, I may be over-reacting but I can’t just sit & watch. This subject irritates me the most, and although I’m not a perfect person. What’s right is right & what’s wrong is wrong & they’re both as clear as the sun.

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Day 24 & 23.. 6th year is OVER !

I was supposed to write this post last night yet yesterday was a bit of a busy day. I woke up at 10 am and jumped around my room to get ready as fast as I could since I was late to the revision class they scheduled for u that started AT 10 am. I got to class, attended whatever was left of it till 1 pm. I set off to my clinic, I had my two last appointments as a dentist/student. I was worried and anxious, the lab had gotten me the dentures but I had no idea if they’d fit or not.. And I couldn’t afford them not fitting! My 1st patient arrived and alhamdillah the denture fit perfectly. I called my supervisor to check on it & sign my requirement’s sheet. I was smiling yet still the 2nd patient wasn’t done yet. I waited and waited. Her appointment was at 2.. But she showed up at 3 ! I didn’t comment on her lack of punctuality since it was her last appointment. I tried in the denture & it needed a bit of alteration then fit perfectly too alhamdillah. I called the other supervisor to check on & he approved. He took out his stamp from his pocket, stamped his name on my papers and signed the last signature I needed to complete my case. I felt a mixture of relief & extreme happiness. I wanted to scream & cry. Yet I didn’t just to keep my posture in front of both the doctor & the patient. I gave her the instructions needed & told her this is her last visit. She was so happy & thanked me.
After she left I stood there in my clinic, cleaning up for the last time thinking.. This is it. I’m done. It’s over. No more running around, no more frustration, no more patient hunting, no more misery, no more.. No more ! 6th year is officially over. I was and still am at this moment in a state of disbelief, I had crossed the bridge, walked the journey & made it till the end. I had my doubts, oh how big & strong they were, doubts deep in my heart that I may not have the strength nor the will to do this. But I did it, I really truly did it !
I got home at around 4 pm ate my lunch then went to my papers. I sat there trying to read but couldn’t.. I felt so tired, like a heavy weight was lifted off my shoulders. I decided to give myself the rest it needed, the rest it earned. I took a nap which sadly extended till 9 pm. I woke up in shock & started working on the forms & my patient pictures to print them out & hand them in the next day. It took me 2 hours to finish them all. Then I went back to studying.. I slept around 3 am since I had to wake up today to beat the 9 am deadline.
I woke up, went to the university & handed in every single paper I had to sign & stamp throughout the year. I walked back to the car empty handed with a full heart. I still can’t believe this is all happening, I still can’t comprehend it all and I still haven’t cried of joy !
Finals are just 5 days away so maybe after I’m really done with CCC I shall feel what I’m supposed to feel.
Now back to my never-ending papers which I have a feeling are populating overnight when I’m asleep !

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