We are all used to staying away from home after four and a half years of MBBS, and it was the same for me, but the difference was that in PG there are ten times more responsibilities, an ocean of knowledge to acquire, and every day is a surprise in terms of journal clubs, seminars, interdepartmental meetings, and so on. The list goes on and on…we have a wonderful group of colleagues, and the staff is also very supportive, but one sense of loneliness remains. This feeling will begin to take hold as the evening progresses. But you know why this didn’t last long for me?

I FOUND A NEW FRIEND!!!!! GUESS WHO???

MY MICROSCOPE ……

You all will be wondering as to what am I speaking right??

So now Ill narrate you a small story as to how I found my best friend for life…. As we all say in this instagram and FB era my “BFF”

These were the early days when I had just started as a postgraduate student at a new college. I was still trying to soak in the joy of getting a seat, but I was also doubting myself that I would be able to do this….so now I think I need to take you on a quick flashback to when the NEET PG results were announced… Again, a bright new day, results were displayed, and as my heart had always desired to do Pathology, I put forward my application in front of my family, but there came an obstacle as to being the first medico in the family, the only work a Pathologist does is blood reports (for this I don’t blame them, they are from a non medical background, but irony is that even our fellow medical branch people think the same ) And that’s when they suggested going for another branch but fighting the battle alone, as you can imagine, I conquered the territory and entered a new world ….

So, coming back to the present, with that baggage of feeling as to will I be able to do this, how will I sustain, will everything be fine, what if I am not able to do, how should I face everyone came the cloud of overthinking hovering over my head…but that’s when I decided I have done what I like and I can do everything and I started….but as I mentioned earlier, as the evening sets in, the cloud will descend. I started seeing a few slides under my microscope one day while I was having the same feeling and had to work at the same time. One hour passed, two hours passed, and after a while I realised that all the clouds of overthinking had vanished and that I was so fresh, full of energy, and enthusiasm that I was completely drowned in my own new world that I had discovered only a few hours before. That was the day I met a new friend, “my microscope.” It helped me to rediscover myself and my lost confidence…it assisted me in instilling new ideas and showing me a new world with limited pink and blue shades while also instilling a sense of curiosity in me to discover the hidden meaning behind each shade.

It’s been more than two years, and every day my friend shows me something new and makes me learn something new with each slide. The cloud that has been hovering over me has gone very far and I don’t think it will ever dare to come near me because my BFF is always there with me… Now I can’t imagine my life without my microscope, which assisted me in discovering myself and instilling a sense of self-confidence, and for that reason I refer to it as MY BEST FRIEND FOREVER……

We always find relationships in people, but there are so many other things in life that play a larger role and in return don’t expect anything from us, they are so generous that they just keep giving what they want and don’t care what they expect from us… I believe that we come across many such things that we do not acknowledge on a daily basis, but in this new normal life of isolation, quarantine, and social distancing, now is the time for all of us to find our Best Friend Forever…. I chose mine a long time ago….now it’s your turn….

PS : let me know about your BFF too..

Name: Dr Kothurkar Prajakta Rajiva
Designation : Pg final year
Institute: Yenepoya medical college Mangalore