I CONQUERED THE WALL!!!




By:
Doc Butch Dumdum

A teacher once told me, that there is a wall that separate us from achieving our dreams. This wall is made by no one else but us. The moment we start dreaming, is also the moment that we start doubting whether we can make it or not , and in every doubt, we add a brick that forms the foundation of that wall.

As we go along our day to day living, our doubts, fears, hessitations, disappointments, failures, keep adding bricks to this wall until such time that the wall is too high, that we no longer see our dreams, and then we stop bothering about it.

When I was young, I wanted to be a doctor. It was my childhood dream. I was determined to be a doctor but things didn't work out the way I wanted to. I was diverted into doing something else. I became a nurse, yet did not practice my profession. Instead, I became a lecturer, a job I never dreamed of. For 10 years after Finishing college I been doing different jobs & businesses other than my childhood dream. Many of these years were wasted, all for nothing, I even went into bankruptcy. The dream of becoming a doctor drifts away. Things went out of control. God took everything I worked for.He stripped me of everything until I had nothing. I thought it was over, but it was not. 

Certainly, only God's supreme plan works. He gave me an opportunity to strip the wall brick by brick. Day by day I trusted Him and day by day, it became clear to me. It wasn't easy, He never said it would be but He was there, helping me break the wall I created for myself.

Many times I had been wounded, many times I wanted to quit. But with the support of the people around me, from my family to my friends, from my students to my teachers, from my coreviewers and business partners, and of course from my special someone to her family, and my dog, slowly I was healing and becoming more determined.

Medical School wasn't easy too, especially for me who needed to adjust big time. I need to work at the same time study since I am a self supporting FULL TIME med student in a financially unproductive years. Nobody knew my struggle except for some people I choose to share with because I believed that in times of weakness, displaying it won't help. I focused on what resources available and converted every weaknesses into strength. I may not be the best student there, but I know I have the best support and my spirit cannot be broken. I put my faith to GOD, and I did what I had to do. Truly, God will make a way.

This is now the realization of a promise I made, for my loved ones who are with the creator, and for the living who never failed to believe in me. Here now I say to you:

Thank you very much. Maraming Salamat po. This is your achievement as well.

Here I now stand, with all the battle scars, and a sweet sigh of victory, humbled and ready.

Here at this great wall, where thousands of people struggled and perished, fighting for what they believed in, the Wall that defined its borders, the wall where the art of war was born, here I stand, proudly declaring, that I, Daryl Joel C. Dumdum, RN MD, conquered the wall.

I conquered my wall, I am the supremo and they dont call me supremo for nothing. Keep the fire burning.

To God be all glory and honor.

Daghang Salamat.

Non scholae sed vitae discimus

Doc Butch 
November 06, 2018
Beijing, China





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