Someday Doctor

I bought a bookmark a few years ago with a quote from George Eliot engraved on it.

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”

As a 31-year-old husband and father who wants to go to medical school, it’s often difficult to accept these words without some measure of hesitation and fear. Throw a pile of high-interest credit card debt in the mix, and the words become downright petrifying. It often feels like it IS too late. I often find myself thinking that if I wanted to be a doctor, I should have thought about that 13 years ago, when I graduated high school. But the fact remains that this is what I want to do, and if I continue to ignore that simply because it feels like it’s “too hard”, then I know that I will someday look back with regret that I didn’t at least try to make it happen.

But I’m in the process of formulating a plan. There are still a lot of variables to work out, and I truly have no idea how the final formula will look, but if I don’t at least point myself in the right direction and start taking baby steps, then I’ll end up sitting behind the desk at the same job for the rest of my life.