Did u ever try out for the basketball team then find out u didn’t make it?
Apply to the college of your dreams and get regretted?
Ask your love interest on a date and be rejected?
Been stood up for a date?
Get jilted at the altar?
Work hard for a promotion at work and have it go to someone else?
Always the bridesmaid and never the bride?
Be picked last for a team? Not get picked at all?
Not get to graduate on time?
Find out you have to take the MCAT again?
Interview at medical schools but not get accepted anywhere?
Apply for residency and not match?
(Those last 3 are for the doctors)
If any of these resonate with you, giving your stomach that queasy churn while you feel your heart drop in despair as you fall to your knees in front of the shattered remnants that were once your dreams and watch those around you celebrate in what you didn’t achieve, hang on to that. And imagine putting together the pieces of your brokenness, summoning the courage to move forward one more time. Just to be broken again. Month after month.
Infertile.ObGyn
