Siomai

Take your first steps towards mastery by removing everything in your enviroment that represents mediocrity, removing your arbitrary limits. Try surrounding yourself with friends the expect more of you than you do.

I am lucky in my life to have friends that do that. First one comes to mind, my sister who had encouraged and been with me on this crazy journey of I Ho Chuan and this year in general. But! I would like to go back to the past.....college.

I am as y'all know a nurse and let me tell you. DO NOT TAKE CONDENSED COURSES. They are one of the roughest experinces that I could ever do. Tests every week and no review classes cause ya should have learned all the skills in the 5 min that they showed ya. You wanted sleep?!? You FOOL. Only memerization and 4 hours of sleep and 8 hour work day, my man! What I am saying is, is that I never got hooked on caffeine and I really regret that some days. 

Anyways.

During one of the most hardest semesters I was there I met my best friend. She is one of the major reasons that I never thought about quitting my nursing. Before the tests we would chat for hours about the subject and talking through what we were doing together really made everything stick better. We would head out for coffee sessions and remind ourselves what we were working toward. That this was more than school. That we were more than whatever our sleep deprived brains told us. That we would make it through this and that we would pursue what we had earned. 

I feel that if she had not been there I would have remained a "sandwhich artist". I know that we pushed eachother to the limits of our knowlegde and then said, you can do better. I know that we both earned a place of respect in eachothers eyes and I can say without a shadow of a doubt that she is one of my dearest people. 

Have a wonderful week and see yall around!