"goodbyes" training.

a good dream that came true.

i managed to complete my 2 weeks clinical training plus trip in seoul korea.
i was exposed to a utterly new culture and living environment in that period with 4 friends.
it was really fun to explore a new place with people that we comfortable with, it was like having a great adventure together.

we had fun, we learned, we talked and we had least conflict.

i adore learning and obtaining wondrous experiences.
i witnessed how the passionate koreans physicians work to improve the national health, how efficient staffs particularly nurses could facilitate the whole working process in a hospital; in contrary i could see the ego that inculcated in many of us in this field of our country.

journeys do impart lessons and i grasped numerous from this journey.
out of many of them, i feel there are 2 that i should write out as a sharing and reminder for myself.
when living in a small group, the point wasnt about how we behave ourselves, but it is all about how we conform ourselves to the situation. change according to our role in that group, not the self that we have been. should sense when to be a follower, when not to voice out excessively. i am still learning.
dont look down on anyone and lower yourself if you were at high position. in a weekend morning while on our way to a destination by Korea LRT, the coach seats were fully occupied as usual. people looked at their own phones, standing, sleeping, daydreaming and etc. there was an old folk sat on old newspaper at the entrance of the coach with quite unkempt clothes. a friend of mine sat with him at the entrance throughout the route. at the end of the day, when we were heading back to our guest house town, we met the old man again. he recognized my friend, they just shook hands and smiled at each other with very limited verbal communication because of language barrier. however, the old gentleman managed to express himself telling us we were waiting at the wrong line to go back the town. it was a heart-warming act by a stranger in a foreign land. it was help by one whom people think unremarkable to note. i was telling myself we will need aid from anyone at anytime no matter who we are and how superior one is.

i was sitting at the window seat nearest to turbinate of the aircraft during my flight leaving korea.
the view was exactly the same as the time i left sabah few years back after living there for 3 years.
i recalled a lot.
it wasnt an easy goodbye too.
but everything was like memories and nothing else now. i recalled experiences, life, people there like reading others' stories now.
so i guess it maybe helpful to write down something on what i encounter right after this trip as i still have vivid feeling on it.

time is too little for us to stand still without pacing forward. presume me as a mean person or a victim with lesser sentiments in this fast-revolutionizing era.

but for sure, i am exhilarated for every new Hi and am pain for every Goodbye.

i didnt capture much photos. i like words and looking for someone adore photos.


btY