Whether through little encounters or poignant conversations, bearing witness to what patients go through and yet being able to offer so little to their betterment in our capacity as medical students continually sheds new perspectives.

After returning to the wards for barely three weeks, it's still so easy to to get tired, grumpy, jaded. Easy to get carried away with the negativities and forget the blessings. So it's important always to remind oneself that happiness comes from small things. The seemingly insignificant things; a cup of morning coffee, greeting someone with a smile, offering a drink to a patient, witnessing acts of kindness, laughing over the silliest things, a moment of introspection on the train ride home, a reminder from a verse, taking in the beautiful colours that paint the sky at the end of a sunset or the stars that sparkle on a cloudless night.