Fragile...

After years of biology and 2 years of studying nothing (ok, maybe a few other minor minor things) but human body, one really can't help but to think that 'Wow, the human body is truly amazing!!!' We have the most perfect mechanisms to regulate our body, the most sophisticated systems to function and everything in the body, no matter how minute they are, are significant. Yet, the most perfect instrument has its own weak spots.

The human body can be very fragile too.

I was in neurological ward a few days ago. While searching for the doctor, we walked through the section where numbers of visitors are restricted. It was the section that has lots of life-supporting machines, lots and lots of tubing, ventilators, iv drips and so on and so forth. The one thing that strikes me the most was that almost all the patients were unconscious.

I passed by a bed where an old gentleman was lying down with lots of tubing. A man and a woman stood beside him, shook him gently and repeated "起来啦,不要再睡了啦." (Wake up, don't sleep already).

I passed by another room where a young child of the age of 3-5 was lying on the bed. Unconscious. The mother was looking out of the window with her back facing me. Though I didn't see her expression, her back told me that she was waiting. Waiting for her baby to wake up. Though the wait is long and seems hopeless, she'll not give up. She is going to wait till her child wake up.

These are scenarios that one typically sees in movie. But now, all of them just appear in real life and are playing right in front of my eyes. I guess what I have to do now is to learn as much as I can for I'd chosen an unusual path. Studying is no longer for the sake of passing exams and obtaining a degree, it has become a responsibility. If I don't take it seriously, at the end of the day, it's the patients who are going to suffer so I have the responsibility to do my best to avoid causing harms to my future patients.

If a human body which is made up of many and many and many components are fragile, then the human heart is even more fragile.

Lately, I'd seen people losing their heart and losing themselves. Even with the smiles on their faces and the cheerfulness of their conversations or fb status, I know that their heart is hurting in a way that a person like me, who had never been in a relationship before, can understand.

Few days ago, I heard this song and I searched for the music video. The song was sad and the actor in the music video was a brilliant one. He depicted heartbreak too well that my heart can't stop but to ache for him as well. Though it's in Cantonese but just by looking at the music video, one can guess what the song is depicting without understanding the language of the lyrics.

I guess no matter how strong something is, even a big solid stone, there'll always be the weak spot and once you figure out the spot, the object is no longer indestructible, it has become a fragile piece...