PROFESSION HEALTH: Coping have many faces
“To the law of statistics, I refuse to bow down. But I’ve made my peace.”
- Minister Luis Kalaff Sanchez, from PROFESSION HEALTH
If you want to know my secret to have the final word, here it is: do not give up, even when it seems that there is no way out. Keep the door open, hope has a strange way to sneak back in and save the day. Hope. That is how I persevered for decades as a diplomat, thanks to hope and dedication. Imagine how surprised I was when I learned about your struggles as health professionals; isolation, depression, feeling of being trapped...
The more I inquired about your causes and circumstances, the more I saw the differences and yet, still share the same feelings - isolation, pressure, trap...
I won’t pretend that I know how to solve your problems but as I learn more on the matter and look into my own briefcase and luggage, one thing surfaces as the beginning of the answer: traveling! Most people travel to let out the steam, to see the world and open themselves.
“Travel and you will keep your senses on their toes.”
- Minister Luis Kalaff Sanchez, from PROFESSION HEALTH
Every time you face the unknown, the new, all your senses awake in a symphony that forces you to embrace the tastes, the colors, the encounters forcing you out of your comfort zone. Strangely enough, it is sweet, sour and spicy, all at once.
But yet, we can identify distinctive flavors. That was and still is to me, the epiphany of being alive, of being happy. No matter the stress, the reason of my diplomatic trip, the awakening of my senses, every single time, kept me on my toes…