A little before my 24th birthday, I nearly died, and in that almost death, as one often does, I found the truth of my life. It’s quite cliche, I understand, that near death experiences teach you about what’s really important in life. But nearly dying is quite an expensive and dangerous way to learn something. Because what I learned was so crucial to my life, I will share it here for free for all the intelligent and driven young women who make up my audience.
I really loved reading your article, and could not have agreed more with each word written! You are both insightful and a great writer. Please keep writing more.
Wow, I had an eerily similar experience a few months ago - I fell while skating and hit my head so hard, I'm sure I had a concussion (not as bad as yours). I was afraid to fall asleep that night in case I didn't wake up and the thoughts that ran through my head at that moment were "I'm so happy and so at peace with my choice to spend as much time with my kids as I have" My thoughts weren't about my part-time jobs, or my career I had before kids that I didn't go back to, but they were of my kids and all the time that I chose to spend with them. I grew up with parents that pushed education on me really hard, and the idea that I needed a career, so that choosing to raise my boys wasn't met with acceptance. In one of the scariest moments of my life, I realized that I could finally be at peace with a decision that I had always questioned. Thank you for this article!
Wow! Super powerful and insightful. Thank you for sharing. I’m currently battling with myself over what I gave up to become and continue working as a physician vs. the need to make an income. On a hiatus currently. I appreciate your words of wisdom.
Doing a great job at being a wife and mother will take every bit of intelligence, fortitude, skill and spiritual strength you can muster. Being proactive in raising your kids, setting them on the right path, serving your family (as your mate should also be doing) is not only an important job, it's the MOST important job. The child you send forth will have a bigger impact on the future of humanity than anything you can do at a corporate job.
No part of this article is surprising. Megha was too weak and not bright enough to get into medical school and succeed at her graduate program, but she can't accept her personal flaw. So she decides that females are unfit to be doctors instead of taking individual responsibility for her own shortcoming.
Megha is just like the obese women who fail to lose weight and instead blame society's "beauty standard".
I experienced a terrible fall on my head too as a child. I later discovered I had a very strong vasovagal response, which made me sensitive to changes in blood pressure (and why I originally fell in the first place).
Any time I'm sick, I try to avoid intentionally getting up or moving too quickly now. Caffeine also makes your nervous system a lot more sensitive to changes in blood pressure. I learned that the hard way after donating blood and passing out.
I really loved reading your article, and could not have agreed more with each word written! You are both insightful and a great writer. Please keep writing more.
Wow, I had an eerily similar experience a few months ago - I fell while skating and hit my head so hard, I'm sure I had a concussion (not as bad as yours). I was afraid to fall asleep that night in case I didn't wake up and the thoughts that ran through my head at that moment were "I'm so happy and so at peace with my choice to spend as much time with my kids as I have" My thoughts weren't about my part-time jobs, or my career I had before kids that I didn't go back to, but they were of my kids and all the time that I chose to spend with them. I grew up with parents that pushed education on me really hard, and the idea that I needed a career, so that choosing to raise my boys wasn't met with acceptance. In one of the scariest moments of my life, I realized that I could finally be at peace with a decision that I had always questioned. Thank you for this article!
This is beautiful. Thank you.
Amazing, I’m studying for the MCAT and going for my 2nd attempt this year, May
2023. However, I’ve been feeling demotivated because I think there is no hope of me getting a high score and going to med school.
I think my tenacity is driving to push me through this stagnation and keep on pursuing my goal.
Anyway, this was very interesting.
I think of this often, when I'm dying the last thing on my mind will be a career but whether or not I've left behind a living, breathing legacy.
Wow! Super powerful and insightful. Thank you for sharing. I’m currently battling with myself over what I gave up to become and continue working as a physician vs. the need to make an income. On a hiatus currently. I appreciate your words of wisdom.
I didn't know...
Doing a great job at being a wife and mother will take every bit of intelligence, fortitude, skill and spiritual strength you can muster. Being proactive in raising your kids, setting them on the right path, serving your family (as your mate should also be doing) is not only an important job, it's the MOST important job. The child you send forth will have a bigger impact on the future of humanity than anything you can do at a corporate job.
No part of this article is surprising. Megha was too weak and not bright enough to get into medical school and succeed at her graduate program, but she can't accept her personal flaw. So she decides that females are unfit to be doctors instead of taking individual responsibility for her own shortcoming.
Megha is just like the obese women who fail to lose weight and instead blame society's "beauty standard".
Profound story! Love your point about feminism existing for corporations.
Is the painting at the end yours?
Wonderfully concise articulation and generous insight
Megha, u blow my mind away.. Very well written and infact, Courageous! Kudos
Excellent piece. And from the heart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death
I experienced a terrible fall on my head too as a child. I later discovered I had a very strong vasovagal response, which made me sensitive to changes in blood pressure (and why I originally fell in the first place).
Any time I'm sick, I try to avoid intentionally getting up or moving too quickly now. Caffeine also makes your nervous system a lot more sensitive to changes in blood pressure. I learned that the hard way after donating blood and passing out.