The anticipation, the suspense of taking off and landing. As you sit
there in the airport watching planes as well as people walking through the terminal
do that (Dr. Spencer likes telling you to observe gait in the mall), you see
all these people going places. With all these cities and destinations, you
can’t help but let your imagination for a minute go with them. Some of these
locations you have already been to, others you long to return to, and there are
those you can’t wait to see for the first time. As it all comes back to the
place you are returning to, although life is always lived forward, its best
understood backwards. Having reflection and being Introspective.

Without
inspiration, one can form no appreciable idea of what man is capable of
achieving. You are no hero just for making someone’s foot better as that is
what you are expected to do. You go beyond what you are conditioned to think as
there is always room for ideas, imagination, dreaming, enthusiasm, charisma,
creativity, artistic expression, and being different. No matter what limitations
that you have or are perceived with, there are always certain qualities and
aspects that you just can’t define, quantify, or measure that are valuable;
rare things that can contribute to the prosperity of a profession that needs
you to help it thrive, to keep it going. As much as our “mascot” Dr. Tim likes
the dental school across town too, the dental students, and looks forward to
having his teeth pulled, he knows, like the rest of the health professions:
there holds something distinctly unique and special within the culture of
Podiatric Medicine.
Beyond
how each person comes to define success or what first got him or her interested
in something, what matters the most is what makes you stay. As for what makes
you qualified for something, that is up to the minds of others. You yourself
are just ever cognizant, always conscientious of what it is like to be on the
other side of things. There are people out there who will never go beyond ten
miles outside of where they were born, friendships that took time to develop
only to dissolve in a second, people who were indifferent about you, someone
that you wonder what could he have gone on to do in life had he been bestowed
the ability to think, reason, comprehend, and function without mental and
physically disability, and there are people out there who never got a chance to
go home.
There are many trails and paths to
the top of the mountain. Although the steps do not charm us as much as its
heights, the view is always the same. You climb it not so that the world can
see you, but so that you can see the world. To be able to do things, you don’t
need to be a president, have achievements, awards, accomplishments, degrees,
professions, positions, or even a title with two to three letters from the
alphabet soup next to your surname. Whatever you had to endure in life,
upbringing, school, or career just look for inspiration from the very people
you will one day be around there to help. Patients are survivors. For all the
things they preserve through, just remember, you can do it too. While
those other institutions and professions come to wish they got to have you, to
wonder how come they never got to have such people, you’ll have a place that
says to them “there goes one of our guys