I was supposed to be the family doctor…
But that’s what I always said I was going to be. Once I realized my first dream to be the first woman to play for the NFL was not going to happen! I decided to think more on the practical side.
My first thought was to become a teacher because I love kids right. But then when I was in the fifth grade I realize that the kindergartners were bigger than me and they were mean! So yeah that wasn’t gonna work and OMG these kids these days are much worse.
I kind of was lost at that point until I started watching the Cosby show and noticed that Bill Cosby worked from his home a lot and he had his own office and I was always like what does he do because I want to do that! Come to find out he was an obstetrician and I looked it up and was like that is perfect. I mean I love kids but I don’t want to give them shots so I can’t be a pediatrician but I can definitely take care of a pregnant mom and birth the child for them and hand the baby off to the pediatrician, plus I hate it to watch stuff where doctors would be so rough with newborns while delivering them it just annoyed the crap out of me.
And so that was my dream from middle school through high school. I then spent 4 years at a community college, part time, in Maryland and then I spent 4 years part time in Charlotte UNCC as a biology major. The funny thing is I didn’t want to be a doctor, I I just think the body and the way it works is very interesting. But I had already told everyone I was gonna be a doctor and my grandma told everyone at church that I was going to be a doctor. So whenever I went to church they would say hey Doc this or hey Doc that. I felt like I was stuck so I tried to stick it out. To make it easier on myself I said that I would become a doctor and start my own practice and hire people to work there so that I didn’t have to work there. It was simply not what I wanted to do.
One day I was talking to my mom on the phone while walking to class and I hadn’t done my homework I hadn’t studied for like a quiz or a test and she was just like it doesn’t seem like you really want to do this. And I was like wow I really don’t but I’ve already told everybody and grandma‘s telling everybody. My mom said well guess what, you are the one who will have to live with this, you’re the person who will end up being unhappy so don’t worry about everybody else they’ll be OK they’ll get over it. Which they did LOL. No one calls me Doc anymore, thank God!
That day when she said that I literally and I mean literally turned my little butt around and went home and dropped every one my classes, I just needed a break or something. I’m still going to open a medical practice someday but I’m still not gonna be the one working in it but I would still love to have my own practice it just sounds like cool you know, boss, the bomb.com. And I’m definitely going to go back and finish my biology degree, I only have about five classes left so I owe that to myself to get my bachelors.
But I definitely feel like I wasted a lot of time doing something that I really didn’t want to do for other people. It’s definitely a lesson learned. I think I would’ve made a good lawyer, or I don’t know what else pro football player LOL. Either way I will learn how to think about me first, and to stop trying to please everyone else because….. What I want should matter to me more than what everyone else wants for me. I should know me better than anybody else.
P.S. I love Me, I love my God, I love my Baby Boy, I love my Hubby, I love my Family, I love my Friends, I love my Support System
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