Missing something..

It's been a couple of months since I've left the fabulous city which I've lived for many years. How I miss the wonderful sunset at the beaches, the best I think I've ever seen in Malaysia. Whenever I'm bored or there is a need to get acquainted with the great outdoors, there is always the wonderful beach and sunset. All I need to do is to grab my camera and then perhaps a cup of steamed corn from the many sellers nearby and sit to watch the sunset. A mere 10 minutes away from my apartment. Parking is never a problem. Right next to the beach. And it's free. Watching children playing at the beach or looking at tourists having a walk by the beach is so relaxing. Chatting up the kids is so easy. The people are pretty friendly.

In the current city I'm staying, don't even bother looking for sunset by the beach. Even looking up friends is not easy. At least 45 minutes away plus RM4 toll charges. And frequently everyone has their own things to attend to. Most of the time is probably work related. Any extra time they will probably need to allocate for their chores/family. There is really no time for real friendship.

The daily grind of waking up 6.30am, doing rounds, rushing to clinics, writing reports, doing some presentations, settling some ward problems and then going back after sundown sucks big time. Any extra time even weekends, will be obligated to attend some stupid drug talk which tells you that drug A works better than drug B by 5%, CMEs and so forth (becoz boss asked or for the sake of the stupid PTK thing). If I had to choose my profession again, I would stay far far away from the medical profession. I just don't see the point.

I guess most of us earn a living as to be financially free so that we can spend quality time with our friends and family and do the things we enjoy, and not to worry about our next mortgage payment. But in order to achieve financial freedom, we are sacrificing all those things dear to us. And at the end, we may never achieve real financial freedom anyway. We will never be satisfied with how much $$ we have. We stand to lose both ways.

If we can already spend quality time with family and friends and do all the things we enjoy why on earth we need to go into that rat race? It's ironic...Maybe it's for that Porsche car.

So there goes again the daily grind tomorrow...sigh.