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A decision I made this past summer set my world upside down, but strangely, I can see and understand everything better. It was the turning point of my life. I switched my career path. As an individual in her early twenties, decisions like the one I made can either be detrimental or fulfilling in the long run. I pray that I made the right choice, and so far I believe I did. I chose to depart from the expectations of my parents of me becoming a pharmacist and decided to become a MEDICAL ILLUSTRATOR.

Here is the Wikipedia definition: A medical illustrator is a professional artist who interprets and creates visual material to help record and disseminate medical, biological and related knowledge.

 Doesn’t that sound impressive?

God rewards the go-getters and the risk takers. Are you using everything you have that God has given you to its fullest potential, or are you keeping it hidden safely away where no one else can experience it?  That is why I finally decided to gather all the courage I could possibly have as a girl who listened to her parents all her life. But I did not want to be a rebel, I wanted to be myself.

Here’s some practical advice: Do not do what you love; do what you are.  You were probably told to do what you love and love what you do. The one thing that should be done is to do justice to yourself. Do something as well as you can in order to show your true qualities and ability.

My friends who are trying to figure out what to do with their life… I UNDERSTAND!  You are not alone! The pressure we feel to find a perfect career is insane. Oh, and do not forget we have to find it before we are thirty, in order to avoid both a quarter-life crisis and a biological- clock crisis. The pressure is enough to push anyone over the edge, but we have to catch ourselves before we plunge. It is better to prevent the fall than to have to pick yourself up from a fall and move on. I have fallen, and even if I pick myself up I always feel that bruise coming in and the soreness for the next few days. I rather not fall at all. When you catch yourself from falling you feel that massive adrenaline rush, which is way more exhilarating than a bruise on your bottom! What I am trying to say is to free yourself from the darkness of uncertainty and indecisiveness.  For there is only one who knows that there will be light at the end of the dark tunnel, and only He knows when you will reach the end of the black.

“but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.” ———-Psalm 139: 12