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𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗞-𝗘𝗦𝗞𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗔 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗗𝗢𝗪𝗡 | 2 More Days!

𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑫𝑨𝒀 is coming closer!

A new academic year will open the door to more learning, engagement, and new
opportunities as we embark on new hurdles and challenges that will make us stronger as
aspiring medical-allied professionals.

To our incoming first-year students, this is the beginning of a wonderful journey in
understanding the beauty and wonders of the human body.

We are getting closer to creating memories with our fellow students, engaging in activities
that reinforce our knowledge and understanding, and collaborating with the institution in a
year filled with love, and bliss!

𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓?

𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦 𝘔𝘺𝘤𝘤𝘢 𝘊. 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴
𝘓𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘒𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘨𝘺𝘭𝘭 𝘔. 𝘈𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘢𝘯

‎𝗧𝗗𝗖𝗜𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 | My Father Was My First Heartbreak
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‎Not because he left.
‎Not because he failed me.
‎Not because he did not love me enough.
But because from the very moment I learned what love was, I was also unknowingly learning what loss would feel like.
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‎As children, we look at our fathers as though they are carved from something stronger than flesh and bone. They are giants. They are protectors. They are the people who stand between us and the frightening parts of the world. We believe they can fix anything, a broken toy, a scraped knee, a bad day, a broken heart.
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‎I used to think my father would remain exactly as he was forever. I thought his hands would always be strong. I thought his voice would always fill every room. I thought he would always be waiting on the other side of every door I opened. I thought time would spare him.
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‎I was wrong.
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‎The first time I noticed my father aging, I felt a grief I could not name.
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‎It was in the silver strands that quietly appeared in his hair. It was in the sigh he let out when he stood from his chair. It was in the way his hands, once so capable of carrying everything, began carrying a little less.
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‎Nothing dramatic happened.
‎No tragedy.
‎No catastrophe.
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‎Just time. The cruelest thief of all.
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‎And perhaps that is what broke my heart.
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‎Because nobody warns you that one day you will look at your father and realize he is no longer the man who carried you on his shoulders. Nobody tells you how devastating it is to watch your hero become human.
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‎We spend our childhood wanting to grow up. Then one day we do. And suddenly we would give anything to go back.
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‎To sit beside him in the passenger seat without worrying about how many years are left. To hear him call our name from another room. To listen to stories we've heard a hundred times before. To remain a child for just a little longer. Because growing up means discovering an unbearable truth: The people who taught us how to live are not going to live forever.

Sometimes I catch myself staring at my father when he isn't looking. ‎I memorize the shape of his face. The sound of his laughter. The way he walks. The way he says my name. As if my heart already knows there will come a day when memories are all I will have left.
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‎And that thought terrifies me.
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‎There are nights when the world is asleep and I find myself grieving someone who is still here. Not because I am ungrateful for his presence. But because I know how precious it is.
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‎I know that every Father's Day is not guaranteed. Every conversation is not guaranteed. Every shared meal, every joke, every ordinary afternoon spent together is not guaranteed.

One day there will be a final photograph.
‎‎A final hug.
‎A final "Take care."
‎‎A final goodbye disguised as an ordinary day.
‎‎And neither of us will know it when it happens.
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‎How unfair it is that life allows us to love people this deeply while refusing to let us keep them forever.
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‎How unfair it is that the first man who teaches a daughter what safety feels like is also the first person she must one day learn to live without.
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‎My father was my first heartbreak because he taught me that love is not measured by how long we get to keep someone.
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‎Love is measured by what they leave behind. The values they pass on. The strength they lend us. The kindness they teach us. The pieces of themselves that continue living within us long after they are gone.

Still, if I could ask the universe for one impossible thing, it would be this: ‎Let my father stay. Let him stay a little longer. Let his laughter echo through our home for a few more years. Let his hands remain steady. Let time forget his name.
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‎Because no matter how old I become, no matter how independent I appear, there will always be a part of me that is simply a daughter searching for her father.
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‎And maybe that is the greatest tragedy of love. Not that it ends. But that it teaches us exactly what we stand to lose.
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‎My father was my first heartbreak. And perhaps he will always be.
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‎For how do you prepare yourself for the day the first man you ever loved becomes a memory?
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‎𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘑