It’s been busy at The Academy recently, lots going on and we’re not finished for this year yet, with more clinical days, a DFT hands-on teaching day for 2 groups and The Business Course still to be completed.
On the Aesthetic course recently though, I was confronted with the story of one of my ‘colleagues’ from somewhere else in the country.
This particular individual has a Lamborghini and a gorgeous wife and in spite of what I or other people might think of the dentistry that’s done, he does appear to be extremely 'successful'.
The initial response to this is for the green monster to well up in the chest and think “I’m off out to buy a car that costs about as much as a hospital in Ghana and to trade my wife in for someone who is perhaps younger and a different shade of orange”.
Then I remembered that I wasn’t playing the same game and there is no point in being jealous of someone who’s doing something entirely different.
You could play chess beside a group of people playing croquet and then you could realise that if you took a croquet mallet to the chess board you could ‘beat your opponent’.
But then you wouldn’t be playing chess.
I always have to remind myself that it’s not that I can’t have a supercar or another life; it’s that I choose not to.
I choose to play a game for the long-term and to be a custodian of my profession and to try to pass it on to the people that come after me in a better condition than it was when I found it.
That game is not supposed to be easy and it gets harder by the day but until I choose to play a different game; I’ll leave the croquet mallet for the croquet players.
Blog Post Number - 2567