"You cannot have certainty and you don't need it." --Psychology Today
Can someone live by that? Can every moment be rife with possibility, heavy and thick with it? Unaccounted for, unforeseen, unpredictable. Possibility. If we surrender the battle for certainty, we lose the security embedded within it and the shelter wrapped about it. So, we surrender a battle we could never win. And, we gain...everything.
I asked him how he knew psychiatry was what he wanted to do, and he replied, dropping the mannerism of doctor/psychiatrist/counselor/suave-gray-tailored-suit-van-der-Rohe-Barcelona-chair-sitting man, "I didn't know...In medical school, we did rotations and you find what fits."
Then, what hit me and resounds still: "It's not a perfect job, but it's not a perfect world."
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