My family’s struggles have felt like a long winding road that never ends. And when I say this, I speak for every person because each person and each family have their own battles to overcome, no matter what the circumstance. The challenges life brings comes with uncertainty of the road ahead. Even when we believe in ourselves to overcome an obstacle, sometimes it seems that there is no end in sight. That there is no victory. I’m here to say that there is. Even in our darkest hours. All that is required is faith.
In life, when something is given, it can just as easily be taken away. What I am to describe to you was one of the most difficult periods of my family’s life in Australia. It was July 2011 when I came back home after a grueling examination period in my medical course. I had completed the 3rd year of medical school in Hungary and for the students there, this symbolised a great milestone in graduating as a doctor.
Our lives seem to follow a basic law that is underpinned in physics, that “every action has an equal and opposite reaction.” My family had now found itself in a situation never experienced before. From a life of escaping conflict in a homeland, to building a new one in an adopted country, we ultimately lost everything that we worked so hard to achieve.
So here I am after all the experiences, all the highs and lows. Finally, I bring you to a new chapter of my story, my present life. In 2014, I had completed the medical degree I had desired so much. It was an amazing moment that gave me a revelation about my life. I believed that I could do anything if I put my mind to it. I thought back to when I was in high school, when career advisers told me I could not get through medical school. When I faced failures at university. And at times when it appeared all hope was lost. I realised within myself, that it was only my mind that stopped me from achieving what I knew I was destined for.
It was just over a year ago when I began the process of waking up to my own existence. Our reality is a product of experiences accumulated since the day we are born. Our understanding of this reality is relative to the experience of life.
Your conscious awareness is something that existed before you were born, and will continue to exist after your death.