“A New [PHAMTASTIC] Point of View”
After being accused of breaking “HIPAA codes” for writing in my ever praised and well-known blog, I’ve been advised to privatize my thoughts on patient grievances and other such woeful dilemmas that are plaguing our hospital systems. I turn instead to the old carefree days of finding beauty in the world as an ever idealistic north campus English major at my alma mater and former journalist for my beloved UCLA Recreation Quarterly magazine.
Ah UCLA, my pride and joy. Have you really become a part of my past or can I revive you again as I look for beauty in the tragedies of my everyday life? I still recall the years of my nascent “adulthood” within your multifaceted walls. How I’ve grown in my ability to experience the world for all it’s worth while at the same time growing thick skin against the difficult academics you threw at me.
Above all, I still recall the afternoon teas spread over an auburn Stratford-upon-Avon sky, the excitement of another failed football season, midnight undie runs through horny frat row, the teasing orgasm of Diddy Riese cookies melting over my virgin palate, and the high strung tendencies to overachieve intermingling with the fervent desire to party all night only to “wake up in the morning feelin like P. Diddy.”
Can I still yet create such remnants of my youth away from your prestigious walls? A challenge, I presume, but one that I’m willing to take on as I am now equipped with the existential thinking that might perhaps allow me to always euPHAMize my life in a glass half full. Such a challenge, of course, can only be achieved through my eternal flask of ink and my everlasting rolls of film as I search for hidden beauty in the crevice of another life crisis.
Ah loyal non-existent reader, so you agree with my phamtastic purpose then? Well, “let us go then, you and I/where the evening is spread out against the sky.” I know you are dying to ask me some “overwhelming questions.” But! “Do not ask, ‘What is it?’ Let us go and make our visit.”
And to visit a beautiful world, we will go.
YESSSSSSS. So excited to read your writings again.