A Letter of Love

 

Greetings to all the young students with a twinkle in the eye, a spring in the step, prayer in their hearts and a spark of intellect in them. This is a day about you! The homeopathic fraternity wholeheartedly welcomes the nascent freshness of your mind and spirit into its fold. This is a moment which would be close to your hearts because it is a moment of opportunity. Every person would assail a time of their lives which was a turning point for them. It is true for all whether successful or otherwise. They would in no uncertain words express how well they made the best use of that turning point to reach success. This is the moment of truth for you as you are stepping into a stream of medicine that would not just herald your career but also your life. Probably destiny beckons you.

 

I just met a 20 something techie the other day while waiting in my clinic and was continuing to work on his hand-held device. “I envy you”, I said, “that you can carry on with your job at any time.” He was not amused and said, “Well, try as much as I do, it doesn’t save lives.” Well, that is the resounding truth of your job in the days to come; it has the capacity to save lives. Isn’t it an enviable job? Isn’t it a job that would command love, affection and respect all bundled into one? All with a few sugar pills blended securely with homeopathic medicines into them that the suffering individual does not have to undergo the pain of treatment along with the disease! Trust me the smiles of the patient in relief with our medicines are so benign and benevolent that no other job can probably keep you more contented.

 

Make no mistake about it. We all have joined Homeopathy not by choice but mostly after not being able to procure an admission into mainstream medicine. Trust me again when I say that it is a blessing in disguise because the probabilities of homeopathic treatment and the vastness of its application is growing by the day in today’s world that this is the profession one needs to be in! It is your attitude that is substrate. With the right attitude and a positive approach you can enjoy and employ the immense possibilities of this Science in your studies and later in the treatment of the sick. Without the right attitude we have seen many good minds wither away as they remain to dwell on what they have missed out rather than making use of the good opportunity in their hands.

 

It is an emerging Science because every progress in labelling a new disease by the research world of today is being evenly met with our Medicine. With a few right changes and bold initiatives Homeopathy is at the juncture of what Computer Science as a subject was thirty years ago. What we want to impress on you is the fact that it has a great future. Another argument that comes often is whether homeopathy is recognized all over the world. As a matter of fact what it means is that if we are able to reach out to the world in their language we have continents to conquer. We would play a stellar role for the progress of Homeopathy all over and you would be the Prince/Princess of the brigade! You have a little way to go and you take your first step in that direction now.

 

As you reach the precincts of the college on the first day with parents in tow you would be having butterflies in your stomach. Your mind is preoccupied by how your teachers are going to be; how your new friends would be; how the curriculum would be and how you would be living away from your near and dear ones for half a decade. Don’t let anyone dismiss this as anxiety. It is as a matter of fact the spark in you. It is a precursor to setting of a goal and a shaping up of an ambition. Let this little nervousness in you remain for the time to come. Because this is the same nervous energy that is going to drive you. Dismiss aside any fear though. Many like you have walked the area with a spark in them and are leading their lives in flying colours all because of our homeopathic institutions. ard.

 

For you to succeed you would need the blessings and guidance of the untiring gentlemen who are the pillars of the college and of course the fourth pillar remains to be your hard work which you have to put in the next few years. You would need to strive to achieve your goal and the faculty of the college are always there by your side to help achieve your potential. The secret of success of any professional college is the contribution of the nurturing individuals. It has been 25 years that we had the nervous butterflies in our stomach when we joined this college and till date the faculty of our college (HKES’ Homeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India) look to nurture us. It is a lifelong relationship. They have helped many an ugly pupa to moult and fly away as a beautiful butterfly.

 

You are coming from a background of basics of Science and the quick break into subjects of Medicine and especially of Homoeopathy may be a little overwhelming. But don’t rush to belittle any subject as the mystique and fragrance of Organon of Medicine will take a while to sink in. You don’t need to be serious but yes, you need to be sincere. It is not uncommon to find disappointments in the way but counter them as challenges and learn from the little failures. Don’t we all know that they are the stepping stones to success. Let not the disappointments overwhelm you into frustration. That is where your mettle needs to come out. It also signals that you need to get less serious and more sincere! Coming from a third world country where making a living is also paramount and a profession is largely counted as the means to achieving financial freedom, many a time parents are anxious about how their wards would fare. Homeopathy is probably a system of Medicine that can afford a pay package less than none and brings along with it the perks of happiness and staying alive with the spark remaining in you. This job allows you to be in good health and maintain relationships. Spirituality across religions is unanimous that the human life is the best to pursue the goal of achieving God. Even as citizens from other walks of life need to look for a service that would orient them in that direction; our profession brings with it the opportunity to serve mankind in distress and many a time serve the cause of poor and needy. You get to practice true religion!

 

There must be something special with the batch of 2013. The Central Council of Homeopathy, India is set to make certain fresh changes to increase the quality of teaching at all homeopathic institutions while stressing the need for better infrastructure.

 

The world is waiting for you. Make it count. Make the best use of the opportunity you have got in life. Destiny beckons you. Do we hear a mumble under your breath? Honge kaamyab, hum honge kaamyab, ek din, man me hai vishwas, poora hai vishwas, hum honge kamyaab, ek din…….. Affectionately,

 

Dr.Venugopal Gouri General Secretary,

HKES’ Homeopathic College Alumni Association, Hyderabad. Organizing Secretary,

The Andhra Pradesh Homoeopathic Association, Hyderabad.

Associate Editor, Medicina Futura Homoeopathica

www.aphomeo.com

91 9246372625 (mobile) drvenugopal@gmail.com