Investing Time Or Sacrificing Time?

This is a thought which always plays on my mind. Contrary to the key idea of a 'work-life balance' that recurrs throughout my work experiences and chats with both medical students and doctors, I have for now given up on my drawings, video editing, reading books, playing games and so many other means of relaxing, apart from a convenient few.

I have entire lists of new things I'd like to draw and create, and summer bucket lists for after my A Levels, but all of these lists had built up from things I had wanted to do, but had delayed as there is always revision to be done.

Now thinking about it, I had the same attitude even before this stage, at GCSEs. I have one half empty sketchbook from year 9, and many creative projects that I had stopped doing from after year 8.

I am now on the verge of 18, but looking back at 14, 15, 16 ... I didn't make the most of my ...