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up and down

What goes up must come down. My ego went up and came crashing down about a week later. Its the circle of life. The tzaadik falls seven times and he gets up again. The waves keep crashing against us, trying to knock us down as we try to progress. The waves are powerful, crushing at times. There are times when we just cant stand up against them anymore. Life gets too hard, things get too stressful, we get too tired. We just want to just sit on the couch and veg out. and sometimes that is precisely what we need. and it helps. Purim just passed. I heard an idea about purim that piqued my interest. We say that we are supposed to drink till we say " baruch haman arur moredechai." blessed is haman cursed is mordechai. This kinda seems hard to understand. I have seen some guys uber drunk and even then they know that modechai is blessed and haman is the cursed one. So, I what i heard is the following. We all do things that in retrospect we are proud of and things ...

Simple Question

I look into the window of my mind Reflections of the fears I know I've left behind I step out of the ordinary I can feel my soul ascending I'm on my way Can't stop me now And you can do the same (yeah) What have you done today to make you feel proud? It's never too late to try What have you done today to make you feel proud? You could be so many people If you make that break for freedom What have you done today to make you feel proud? Still so many answers I don't know (there are so many answers) Realize that to question is how we grow (to question is to grow) So I step out of the ordinary I can feel my soul ascending I'm on my way Can't stop me now You can do the same  Its been a while. I know. I have started my rotations. Actually just started my second yesterday. ER. Trauma. Crazy stuff.  It has been a while since I have actually been proud of myself. Like really proud. PA school is rough on the ego. You...