dim! drim!

– This damn alarm clock waking me up as usual.

I say it in my sleepy groggy voice, I just woke up to what could be the best day of my life.

Or at least the most expected. Today begins my residency, I will be really fulfilling my dream.

My name is Marie, I am 25 years old and I have just graduated in Medicine. It was the most incredible 6 years of my life, I met a lot of nice people, and I even found the love of my life.

I am very happy and grateful for all these years, I worked day and night to be here. Today has to be a perfect day.

I hear a noise beside me that makes me snap out of my thoughts.

– Hi my love, ready for your first day of residency.

I look at my boyfriend and smile at him. His name is Greg, we met in college, when we had some classes together, now that we've graduated he's started to do residency as a general practitioner.

While I intend to do residency in psychiatry. I was drawn to the human mind from the moment my father was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

By the time we received this news, my family was devastated, my father was everything to us, and knowing that his sanity was wearing thin was truly devastating.

Because of my father, I studied all the psychological and psychiatric articles on the subject.

I read from Freud to Jung.

All in search of ways to help my father.

But I couldn't, his schizophrenia evolved to a level where he became a threat to himself and to us.

In the end he had a degrading end, ended up dead in the gutter, when in one of his psychotic fits, he ended up being killed and run over. The man who ran him over was some drunkard.

I try to forget about it and focus on the positives today and I answer Greg.

– I was born ready baby.

After answering that, i approach him and kiss his lips. After kissing him, I get out of bed and run towards the bathroom.

I brush my teeth and start making my breakfast.