Restlessness

A feeling of restlessness hit me while studying and now I feel extremely distracted. My brain is currently being filled with non-study related stuff and bugging me a lot, so hence this blog. When random ideas hit me, I never seem to know what to do with them. There seems to be no outlet for my crazy ideas, so they get bottled up and build up pressure. But honestly, what do you do when you get only fragments of ideas and no way to carry any of them out?

For instance, the idea of green (or more environmentally friendly) dentistry/medicine always bounces around in my head, but I have no idea of what to do with the idea or even how to approach it. What I mean by this is that I always notice how wasteful medicine can be (think of all those needles that get thrown out each time someone gets a shot... now I know that they're thrown out for contamination purposes, but all that material adds up and builds in a landfill somewhere...) and it bothers me. Especially as a first year student, I noticed that dentistry uses a lot of non-recyclable items and I keep wondering if they're actually recyclable and we're just not recycling them or is there a way to reformat them for a different use....

It just bothers me. =( If you have any ideas or even resources to give me to learn more about this topic, I'll like to take a browse through them (...when I find time...). This has been bugging me for a while now. 

On another, totally unrelated topic, I seem to find myself daydreaming about food a lot in class. Whyyyyy? It makes me so hungry =(. Yeah.... sorry for the sidetrack. I'll go back to studying now. >< 

It is always before exams that I find time to do so many other things besides studying...like updating this blog. Haha. I would like to say things have improved, but I would be in denial if I said that. The actuality is that pressure has increased and I'm more tired than ever...

On another thought, the topic that they presented us on the retreat day-- passion, has been lingering on my mind for a while. Like it was said, dentistry does not necessarily be our passion but we should definitely have passion in our lives because that is what drives us. A good chunk of a hour or more was spent on "discovering" our passions and writing them down on a paper... Despite it being an interesting activity, I think I'm still missing the point of incorporating passion into my life.

I suppose my new goal, or attempt for the next week or so will be trying to incorporate time for things I'm passionate about into my life to keep my motivation levels higher and my spirits happier.

Time for more calls to family. I love my family and they're certainly a passion of mine. I hope I can learn to better expression my gratitude and appreciate of them. In addition, more time for communication with friends too, for what would my life be with them? I have to thank them for all the times of laughter, support, and keeping me sane.

I won't get too ambitious and try to tackle multiple passions on my first attempt. However, I hope to attempt some of these other ones later: art~ find time to draw more and perhaps start on a mini project for fun; language~ learn Mandarin; self-improvement~ oh gosh, there's so much work to do here; exercise~ hahaha, let's see if I can drag my lazy bum off my chair to break a sweat.

Eeep, back to studying. Til next time (aka the next exam).