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Insight
Do you have one of those friends that you used to be super close with but your relationship has grown apart as time goes on?
This happens when our growth becomes out of sync. When one person starts raising their floor and the other doesn’t, or does it at a different pace (it happens with romantic relationships too).
It’s not inherently bad, only a function of every human doing their own thing - following their own interests and priorities
Education is one way this can happen. When we’re in school, especially graduate programs, we are consumed by the curriculum and rapidly raise our floor to accommodate new information, new ways of thinking, new dreams and ideas for the future.
If those around you aren’t in a similar learning phase, you can become out of sync if effort isn’t put in to reconnect
[perhaps this is also why so many pharmacists are in relationships with other pharmacists - we’re all working on raising our floor together 🤔]
Connection is really what it’s all about. Can you connect in the same way if your floors are at different levels? Potentially, but it will likely take more effort than it used to.
Maybe this is why we get stuck in the “sameness” - that comfortableness of life
It take a lot of effort to move out of it, to overcome the inertia that wants to keep you there. It’s even harder to get 2 people to do it at the same time.
So when you’re working towards something challenging, like learning oncology, and others around you don’t seem to understand, know that it’s normal
Your elevator is on a different floor than theirs and you’re looking at a different view. Not necessarily a better or worse view, but something different. So you’ll need to put in the effort to relate to their experiences and reality moving forward.
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