MY MEDILAG EXPERIENCE -BROKEN DREAMS; SHATTERED HOPES.

Originally Posted on August 9, 2017 bymedilagessence

My name is Seye.

Coming in from Akoka, with hopes of a better life, I arrived dressed in a jean trouser, a black shirt and a brown slippers. We were asked to come for our registration. I was overjoyed to see my friends who also made it, I missed each and every one of them in some way or the other. Smiles on faces, laughter and hugs as friends meet friends. I stood back in my own world, smiling, I was overwhelmed with the thought of spending five years with these friends of mine. I was happy.

About a month into the MBBS program, the gradual decline of my happiness began; I lost my best friend, not to the cold hands of death, but to the stone hands of medical school. She could no longer be my best friend, my heart broke and I lost hope in every friendship I had, if my best friend could leave me, then who couldn’t? I miss her still and I ever will, although I found another friend, there really is no one like the best friend I lost. “Nice one MediLag!, I bet you’re happy now.”
Weeks turned into months and my sadness into depression. I struggled hard against the urges of suicide, I’d heard all about people who took the easy way out and I didn’t want to be remembered as such. The few friends who noticed this struggle came to my aid and I would forever be grateful for their help, for without their words, i might just have been six feet down by now.
I had good times too, there was a particular day my cheeks hurt because of how much I had smiled that day, some days were just great but those moments never lasted. I had crushes that I had to crush, feelings that I had to kill, holes that I had to fill, books that I had to read, memories that I had to forget and love that I had to fall out of. 

I cried many nights and days, I wanted it all to end, I just wanted to be like the other guy who just chills and doesn’t give a damn about her, Like the other guy who couldn’t care less whether she was in class or not, like the other guy who could go to bed without talking to her for a day. I just wanted to be happy and even if not happy, at least I didn’t want to be sad anymore!
I do not blame MediLag completely for all my troubles, but it was MediLag who changed the friends I had, it was MediLag who took my best friend away from me but still it was MediLag who made me see those who were only dressed in white but with a black heart. It was MediLag who made me distinguish those who cared and those who did not. It was MediLag who taught me the brachial plexus. It was MediLag who opened my eyes to the reality of life. It was MediLag who showed me who my real friends were.

I am grateful to MediLag yet I shan’t forget what she took from me. My name is Seye and this is my MediLag experience.
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Oladunmoye Oluseye

200lvl MBBS