Aung
May 14, 2013
Essay 3 # Draft 1

Are you happy, Darling?

Most people believe that the better person in his or her field depends on his or her skill, experience, knowledge and certifications, but in reality, we need sympathy, ethic and responsibility more than those.

Whenever I heard the cheerful conversations about the highly educated physicians who have stuck with the urban since their graduation, it reminds me the young doctor couple. The boy's name is Min, and the girl's is Lin. Even though this is a comparison between the good and bad doctors, let me begin my essay with their love story. They started their relationship since the earliest semesters of their Medical College. Both of them were very good-looking, smart and ambitious. They were a very famous couple in their college at that time, like king and queen of the campus. Also, because of hardworking and good results in every semester, every Professor loved them. Eventually, when they reached their last semesters of the Institute, they had to take the field trip to the degree. Our real story started in there.

            Poor, Poor, Poor! They found poverty everywhere beyond the cities. Even though they were also not rich, the living standards between country and urban were very different. Like a Disease Show, the various kinds of diseases they found, most of them were caused by the lack of Vitamins, lack of purified water, and lack of knowledge. Poverty produced many kinds of diseases among those people. The most of the people were poor peasants. They were very innocent, happy in their lives, although it was like a hell in the young doctors' eyes. They warmly welcomed the young medical students and doctors, and hosted as possible as they could.
            By seeing those situations, the sympathy, kindness and responsibility were growing on in Min's heart. All the snacks he brought to save for a whole trip were gone in a day with the children. After snacks, all the children followed him all the time. He washed all of them by using his soap, cut their fingernails and fed them the nutritious food everyday by using his pocket money. They walked together through the village. Children always run after him, sometime when the youngest one cried out because he couldn't walk to reach all, he picked him up and lay on his shoulder and carried on. All the students gave Min a nickname, “Big Daddy”.

            In contrast, Lin was very upset on the situation, everyone, everywhere and everything was dirty. If she had a chance, she wanted to leave there as soon as she could, but it was for the exam's sake, she swallowed her desire. She never ate anything from the village, survived with the Ramens. She hated herself till swearing for her choice to become a doctor. Even though they were in different groups and took the duties in the different parts of the village, she heard about Min and amazed for that. Also, Min knew all of her events by the friends, but they didn't say anything about that.

            After the trip, they returned to the school and continued to finish their graduation. As usual, both of them did well. After graduation, Min decided to return to the village as a regional doctor. Unlike Min, Lin determined to get a chance to stick with the cities. She knew that being a Physician was the only way for it. Thus, she tried to get a chance to achieve a scholarship to study abroad by the government. As a third country, the government couldn't send many scholarship students to abroad in every year. They selected a few of them from the thousands of applications. There was no hope to get that chance as a junior doctor despite the highly rank official's children and bribers. Lin got the scholarship by passing hundreds of seniors though she was not rich to bribe, and also not a kid of the highly rank official, but because of her beauty, mentioned by the military officer, the head of the Scholarship Selection Committee. Everyone criticized her except Min. Some people retold all the things to him stupidly. Some asked him that they were broken up. He smiled bitterly and replied that there was nothing between them, nothing, separation too.

The story didn't end there. A few years later, Lin returned to her country as a physician, and served in the health department. She could stick with the city as she wanted despite a few regular health inspection trips in her responsible area. Min was a very well-known doctor around his region, everyone loved him. Although he gave up further study, some friends sent him the latest medical newsletters. He was poor, sometime people paid him with a branch of banana, but he was happy for it. Unfortunately, Lin became the head doctor of the health office of that region. One day, she had to go to the Min's village. When her car had arrived in the village, she asked a villager where the village doctor was. A villager pointed out her to a crowd. A bullock cart which a person looked like a patient lying on it sunk in the mud, and people pushed it to escape. Among the people, their beloved doctor who wore the same clothes like all was also pushing together. When he saw her, he waved his hand, just smiled, and continued to push instead of running toward her.

 At that moment, even though she was a higher rank official above him, even though she got higher education, and more worldwide experience than him, she felt lost. The happiest smile of that peasant-dressed doctor reminded what she’d lost.